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The 

Ewing  Genealogy  with 
Cognate  Branches 


A  Survey  of  the   Ewings  and  Their 
Kin  in  America 


By  Presley  KIttredge  Ewing 

and 

Mary  Ellen  (Williams)  Ewing 


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COPYRIGHT.  1919,  BY  PRESLEY  K.  EWINC 


The  Ewixg  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 


In   Memoriam 


The  Day  You  Went 

The  day  you  went  my  world  was  done. 
There  came  no  comfort  from  the  sun 
Nor  from  the  love  of  life  that  lurks 
In  sunlight,  nor  from  all  the  worlds 
Of  faith  and  old  philosophy, — 
Till  one  young  rose  leaned  down  to  me 
And  shot  my  brooding  like  a  wing; 
The  most  foolhardy,  gallant  thing 
In  all  this  rocking  world,  conceived 
Of  morning  dew  .   .  .  and  I  believed ! 
It  bannered  upward  from  the  sod 
The  visible  defense  of  God. 

— Beatrice  W.  Ravenel. 


After  the  manuscript  of  this  book  was  complete  and 
arrangement  made  for  its  publication,  on  April  i,  1919,  at 
the  family  home  in  the  City  of  Houston,  Mary  Ellen 
(Williams)  Ewing,  one  of  the  authors,  as  the  culmination  of 
a  lingering  illness,  peacefully  and  with  her  last  expression 
a  smile,  passed  into  eternity,  her  remains  being  interred  in 
the  family  vault,  St.  John's  Cemetery,  Thibodaux,  Louisiana, 

The  loss  in  her  death  to  humanity,  to  services  of  benefi- 
cence and  philanthropy,  was  recognized  by  all  familiar  with 
the  course  of  her  life.  The  floral  offerings,  in  number  and 
beauty,  were  a  rare  tribute.  The  Associated  Press  heralded 
abroad  her  untimely  departure,  while  the  leading  local 
dailies,  The  Houston  Post,  The  Houston  Chronicle  and  The 
Houston  Press,  recounting  her  life's  services  and  achieve- 
ments herein  narrated,  as  with  one  voice  proclaimed  her 
praise. 

The  Houston  Press,  noting  the  fact  of  her  being  "widely 
known  throughout  the  State  and  Nation,"  referred  to  the 
reforms  she  had  effected  in  the  public  schools,  saying,  "A 
part  of  Mrs.  Ewing's  religion  was  sanitation ;"  it  also  re- 


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ferred  to  her  efforts  to  secure  women  on  the  school  board, 
adding,  "It  was  due  to  the  campaign  she  waged  that  women 
are  on  the  school  board  today."    Further  of  her  it  was  said  : 
"The  passing  of  Mrs.  Ewing  takes  from  Houston 
one  of  the  city's  most  useful  women,  and  her  death 
will  be  mourned  by  many  a  person  whom  she  be- 
friended.   She  was  a  woman  of  tireless  energy,  and 
although  she  was  a  society  leader,  much  of  her  time 
and  effort  were  spent  in  helping  others  and  in 
work  for  the  public  good." 

The  Houston  Chronicle,  with  a  double-column  picture  of 
her,  and  stating  under  heavy  headlines  that  death  had  called 
"One  of  Texas'  Noted  Women  Whose  Life  Was  Devoted  to 
Welfare  Work  for  Mankind,"  declared  that  in  her  death, 
"a  life  of  great  usefulness  and  activity  was  ended,"  and 
further : 

"The  name  of  Mrs.  Ewing  was  long  associated 
with  all  affairs  of  the  City  and  State  which  had  to 
do  with  uplift  work  or  civic  welfare.  She  was  a 
woman  of  strong  personality,  public  spirited,  and 
the  life  of  social  events.  Her  many  deeds  of  public 
and  philanthropic  service  gave  her  a  place  in 
'Noted  Women  of  Texas,'  published  by  the  Bio- 
graphical Press." 

This  paper  in  an  editorial  thus  said : 

"Announcement  of  the  death  of  Mrs.  Presley  K. 
Ewing  brings  a  feeling  of  sorrow  and  sympathy 
from  many  Houston  hearts.  A  life  that  was  de- 
voted to  good  deeds  and  that  encompassed  much 
for  the  happiness  and  uplift  of  mankind  is  ended. 

"In  Mrs.  Ewing  were  combined  those  graces 
which  make  for  life's  finest  realizations.  Active  at 
all  times  in  the  church  and  social  life  of  the  city, 
she  managed  to  also  find  time  for  much  constructive 
work  in  lightening  the  burdens  and  enlarging  the 
opportunities  of  those  whose  lines  had  not  fallen 
in  pleasant  places. 

"Her  death  touches,  as  did  her  life,  the  heart  of 
Houston." 

The  Houston  Post  editorially  spoke  as  follows : 

"A  host  of  friends  who  had  known  and  loved  her 
through  the  many  years  of  residence  here  are  filled 


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with  sorrow  over  the  death  of  Mrs.  Presley  K. 
Ewing  at  her  home  in  this  city  Tuesday  morning. 
To  her  family  and  her  friends  she  was  the  embodi- 
ment of  all  that  was  good  and  noble  in  Southern 
womanhood  and  in  their  memories  she  will  ever 
live  as  a  shining  example  of  the  devoted  wife  and 
mother,  the  undisputed  queen  of  her  home  and 
family  circle,  the  most  optimistic  and  generous  of 
friends. 

"The  influence  of  Mrs.  Ewing  extended  far  be- 
yond her  personal  acquaintanceship,  however,  for 
throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  State  she 
was  known  as  one  of  the  most  distinguished  and 
able  of  the  public  spirits  of  Texas.  Although  pos- 
sessed of  gifts  and  graces  which  made  her  a  favo- 
rite of  society  circles,  she  devoted  much  of  her  time 
and  talent  to  the  improvement  of  the  public  wel- 
fare. She  was  connected  with  innumerable  move- 
ments and  organizations  for  the  uplift  of  the  people 
of  Texas  economically,  mentally,  morally  and 
spiritually.  Her  work  for  the  women  and  children 
of  the  city  and  the  State  particularly  has  been  in- 
valuable, as  she  has  played  a  distinguished  part  in 
ushering  in  the  new  era  of  justice  and  recognition 
for  women  and  the  welfare  of  the  child. 

"The  forces  of  progress  and  righteousness  have 
suffered  a  great  loss  in  the  death  of  Mrs.  Ewing." 
Let  us  who  knew  her  best,  her  husband  and  her  daugh- 
ters, add  only  this : 

Her  exalted  life,  with  its  sweet  helpfulness,  will  remain 
as  a  light  for  guidance,  to  inspire  and  bless  the  work  of 
others.  Though  she  be  dead,  it  shall  not  die.  For  "there 
is  something  that  mantles  through  its  beauty  that  cannot 
wholly  perish." 

We  who  suffer  from  her  loss,  forgetting  doubts  and  fears, 
see  now  through  the  mists  of  tears  and  surgings  of  sorrow 
the  "young  rose,"  leaning  down  to  us,  "conceived  in  morn- 
ing dew" — 

"It  bannered  upward  from  the  sod. 
The  visible  defense  of  God." 


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PREFACE 

With  affectionate  greetings,  we  dedicate  to  our  posterity 
these  pages,  a  labor  of  love  and,  as  we  think,  of  just  family 
pride. 

The  work  was  at  first  intended  to  be  only  a  sketch  of  the 
immediate  family  of  the  authors,  and  in  a  measure  that  plan 
has  been  preserved,  especially  as  concerns  the  details  of  per- 
sonal history;  but  in  other  respects  the  design  has  been 
greatly  enlarged  and  the  work  so  arranged  that  any  branch 
may  be  extended  indefinitely  from  the  point  where  it  enters, 
going  in  like  manner  into  the  particulars  of  its  personal 
history  as  far  as  desired.  The  arrangement  of  blank  pages 
at  the  end  has  been  adopted  to  facilitate  such  a  course. 

Neither  cost  nor  time  nor  care  has  been  spared  to  make 
the  contents  of  this  little  history  portray,  not  a  romance, 
but  the  facts  as  they  were,  so  that  they  may  be  relied  upon 
as  accurate  and  accepted  as  authentic.  Birth,  marriage  and 
death  records  have  been  explored  wherever  available,  both 
as  confirmative  and  in  quest  of  new  light.  Records  still 
preserved  have  revealed  to  us  marriages  and  births,  which 
will  appear  herein,  occurring  more  than  a  hundred  years 
before  the  War  of  the  Revolution  (i 776-1 781).  In  addi- 
tion, our  research  has  extended  to  many  histories,  some  now 
obscure  and  others  out  of  sale  print,  and  also  to  the  archives 
of  family  branches,  wherever  obtainable. 

This  task  has  been  performed,  not  because  we  are  pur- 
suers of  phantoms,  or  fatuous  of  a  useless  aristocracy,  or 
given  to  blind  hero-worship,  but  because  we  believe  that 
noble  aspirations,  lofty  aims  and  deeds  of  exalted  service, 
when  found  in  a  family,  may  properly  be  perpetuated  as  a 
legacy  to  the  generations  yet  unborn,  if  not  for  emulation, 
at  least  as  a  source  of  encouragement  to  their  efforts,  of 
inspiration  for  their  endeavors. 

If  then,  what  we  have  written  shall  serve,  in  other  days 


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to  come,  as  a  light,  a  landmark  or  a  hope  to  some  weary  or 
faltering  feet  pursuing  the  pathway  of  life,  so  that,  seeing, 
they  may  take  heart  again,  we  shall  have  reward  enough. 

Standing  as  we  necessarily  do  upon  the  narrow  Present, 
slipping  as  we  speak,  there  can  be  only  two  real  sources 
of  happiness — our  memories  of  the  past,  our  hopes  of  the 
future.  Whether  these  pages  contribute  to  the  fountain  of 
either  m.ust  be  judged  by  others;  at  least,  the  purpose  which 
has  animated  us  will  not  be  condemned,  and  in  the  thought 
of  Lord  Byron, 

"What  is  writ,  is  writ." 

Presley  Kittredge  Ewing, 
Mary  Ellen  (Williams)  Ewing. 


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ILLUSTRATIONS 


Page 
Ewing  Coat  of  Arms   2 

"Across  the  Fields  of  Yesterday" 4 

Ariel,  the  Home  of  Dr.  Fayette  Clay  Ewing 10 

Alice  Brevard  (Ewing)  Walker 72 

Dr.  James  B.  Bowling 81 

Ephraim  McLean  Ewing   91 

Dr.  Fayette  Clay  Ewing 95 

Captain  Ewing  Werlein 97 

Dr.  Fayette  Clay  Ewing  II 98 

Rev.   Quincy  Ewing    loi 

Eliza  Josephine  (Kittredge)  Ewing 103 

Kittredge  Coat  of  Arms 105 

Dr.  Ebenezer  Eaton  Kittredge 119 

Martha  Wills  (Green)  Kittredge  120 

Ann  Elizabeth   (Kelly)   Kittredge    125 

Elm   Hall    131 

Presley  Kittredge  Ewing   155 

Mary  Ellen  (Williams)  Ewing 161 

Williams  Coat  of  Arms   162 

Captain  Charles  Clark  Williams  164 

Field  Coat  of  Arms  166 

Eudora  Elizabeth  (Cross)  Williams I75 

Josie  Vesta  (Ewing)  Vinson 179 

Gladys  (Ewing)   Combes   181 

Dr.  Abbott  C.  Combes,  Jr 182 

The  Grandsons,  Kittredge  and  Presley  Ewing  Vinson.  .184 


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Page 
Ewing  Coat  of  Arms   2 

"Across  the  Fields  of  Yesterday" 4 

Ariel,  the  Home  of  Dr.  Fayette  Clay  Ewing 10 

Alice  Brevard  (Ewing)  Walker ^2 

Dr.  James  B.  Bowling 81 

Ephraim  McLean  Ewing   91 

Dr.  Fayette  Clay  Ewing 95 

Captain  Ewing  Werlein 97 

Dr.  Fayette  Clay  Ewing  II 98 

Rev.   Quincy  Ewing    loi 

Eliza  Josephine  (Kittredge)  Ewing 103 

Kittredge  Coat  of  Arms 105 

Dr.  Ebenezer  Eaton  Kittredge 119 

Martha  Wills  (Green)  Kittredge  120 

Ann  Elizabeth   (Kelly)   Kittredge    125 

Elm   Hall    131 

Presley  Kittredge  Ewing   155 

Mary  Ellen  (Williams)  Ewing 161 

Williams  Coat  of  Arms   162 

Captain  Charles  Clark  Williams  164 

Field  Coat  of  Arms  166 

Eudora  Elizabeth  (Cross)  Williams 17S 

Josie  Vesta  (Ewing)  Vinson 179 

Gladys  (Ewing)   Combes   181 

Dr.  Abbott  C.  Combes,  Jr 182 

The  Grandsons,  Kittredge  and  Presley  Ewing  Vinson.  .184 


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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


Chapter  I. 

Page 

The  Origin  and  Early  History  of  the  Ewings 3 

Chapter  II. 

The  Different  Branches  of  the  Ewings  in  America.  ...  5 

Thomas  and  Finley  Ewing 5 

James  Ewin    • 6 

Nathaniel   Ewing    6 

William  Ewing   7 

Charles  and  Robert  Ewing 7 

Chapter  III. 

Nathaniel  Ewing,  the  Emigrant;  His  Birth,  Marriage, 

Career  and  Descendants  11 

Chapter  IV. 

William   Ewing,   Emigrant :   His   Birth,   Children   and 

Family  Distinction   18 

Chapter  V. 

Henry  Ewing,  Son  of  Emigrant  William  Ewing:  His 

Career  and  Descendants   20 

Chapter  VI. 

Andrew  Ewing,  Son  of  Emigrant  William  Ewing :  His 

Career  and   Descendants    25 

Chapter  VII. 
John   Ewing,    Son  of  the  Emigrant   William  Ewing: 

His  Marriage  and  Descendants   38 

Chapter  VIII. 

Charles  Ewing,  the  Emigrant :  His  Birth,  Career,  Mar- 
riage and  Children  40 


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Chapter  IX. 

Page 
Robert  Ewing,  the  Emigrant :  His  Birth,  Career,  Mar- 
riage and  Children  42 

Robert  Ewing  1 42 

Mary  Baker  Ewing 44 

Chapter  X. 

Sidney  Ann,  Martha  (Betty),  Polly  and  Jane  Ewing, 
Daughters  of  Robert  and  Mary  Baker  Ewing,  and 

Their  Descendants   45 

Sidney  Ann  Ewing 45 

Martha  (Betty)  Ewing 46 

Polly  ( Patty)   Ewing   48 

Jane  Ewing   50 

Chapter  XL 

John,    Baker,   Young,   Urban,    Reuben   and    Chatham 
Ewing,  Sons  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker)  Ewing, 

and  Their  Descendants   51 

John  Ewing  51 

Baker  Ewing 51 

Young  Ewing   51 

Urban   Ewing    52 

Reuben  Ewing   56 

Chatham  Ewing   56 

Chapter  XII. 

Finis    Ewing,    Youngest    Son    of    Robert    and    Mary 

(Baker)  Ewing,  and  His  Descendants 58 

Chapter  XHI. 

Robert  Ewing  H,  Son  of  Robert  and  Mary   (Baker) 

Ewing :  His  Birth,  Career,  Marriage  and  Children  74 

Robert  Ewing  H 74 

Jane  (McLean)  Ewing  83 

Chapter  XIV. 

The  McLean  Tree :   Lineage  of  Jane  McLean,  Wife  of 

Robert  Ewing  II 84 

Ephraim   McLean    85 

Elizabeth  Davidson  88 


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Chapter  XV. 

Page 
Ephraim    McLean   Ewing,    Son   of   Robert    and   Jane 

Ewing:  His  Achievements,  Marriage  and  Children     91 

Ephraim  McLean  Ewing   91 

Jone  Pope  (Mclntyre)  Ewing 93 

Chapter  XVL 

Dr.  Fayette  Claj"  Ewing,  Son  of  Ephraim  McLean  and 
Jane   (Mclntyre)   Ewing:     His  Career,  Marriage 

and  Descendants   95 

Fayette  Clay  Ewing   95 

Eliza  Josephine  (Kittredge)  Ewing 103 

Chapter  XVH. 

The  Kittredge  Tree :  Paternal  Lineage  of  Eliza  Jose- 
phine Kittredge,  Wife  of  Dr.  Fayette  Clay  Ewing.  .  105 

John  Kittredge    107 

Dr.  John  Kittredge   108 

Dr.  Francis  Kittredge  1 108 

Dr.  Francis  Kittredge  H no 

Abigail   (Richardson)   Kittredge    114 

Dr.  Stephen  Kittredge   116 

Elizabeth   (Eaton)   Kittredge    116 

Chapter  XVHL 

The  Kittredge  Tree  Continued :     Dr.  Ebenezer  Eaton 

Kittredge:  His  Career,  Marriage  and  Descendants   119 

Dr.  Ebenezer  Eaton   Kittredge    119 

Martha  Wills  Green  120 

Ann  Elizabeth  Kelly 125 

Chapter  XIX. 

The   Green   Tree :      Maternal    Lineage   of   Eliza   Jose- 
phine Kittredge,  Wife  of  Dr.  Fayette  Clay  Ewing  132 

Thomas  Green  1 132 

Thomas   Green   H 132 

Thomas   Green   HI 133 

Thomas  Marston  Green   134 

Chapter  XX. 

The    Green    Tree    Continued :      Everard    Green,    His 

Career,  Marriage  and  Descendants   141 


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Page 

Everard  Green    141 

Elizabeth  Kirkland     145 

Chapter  XXI. 

The  Green  Tree  Continued :  The  Family  Achieve- 
ments  and  Distinction    147 

Chapter  XXII. 

Presley  Kittredge  Ewing,  Son  of  Fayette  Clay  and 
Eliza  Josephine  (Kittredge)  Ewing:     His  Career, 

Marriage  and  Children  155 

Presley  Kittredge  Ewing    155 

Mary  Ellen   (Williams)   Ewing   161 

Chapter  XXIII. 

Williams,  Field  and  Mills  Trees :     Lineage  thereunder 

of  Mary  Ellen  Williams,  Wife  of  Presley  K.  Ewing  164 

The  Williams  Tree   164 

The   Field   Tree    166 

Thomas  Field   169 

Thomas  Field  II 170 

Jeremiah  Field    170 

William   Field    171 

Abner  Field  173 

William  Field  II " 174 

Mary  Pierce  Field    175 

Eudora  Elizabeth  Cross   175 

The  Mills  Tree 177 

John   Mills    178 

Elizabeth  Mills  178 

Chapter  XXIV. 

Josie  Vesta  (Ewing)  Vinson,  Daughter  of  Presley  Kitt- 
redge and  Mary  Ellen  (Williams)  Ewing:  Her 
Life,   Marriage  and  Children    179 

Chapter  XXV. 

Gladys  (Ewing)  Combes,  Daughter  of  Presley  Kitt- 
redge and  Mary  Ellen   (Williams)   Ewing:     Her 

Life  and  Marriage   181 

Gladys  Ewing    181 

Abbott  Carson  Combes,  junior 181 

Chapter  XXVI. 

Conclusion      184 


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CHAPTER  I 

THE  ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY  OF  THE  EWINGS 

"Ewing"  is  historically  stated  to  be  the  Anglified  form  of 
Ewen  or  Ewin,  derived  from  Evan  or  Evghan,  which  was 
in  Latin  Eugenius,  and  several  of  the  ancient  "Kings  of 
Scots"  bore  the  name  of  Ewen  or  Eugenius,  one  of  them 
having  been  a  distinguished  leader  of  his  race  in  the  great 
wars  against  the  Romans/ 

Another  of  the  name  (Devonaldus  filius  Ewyn)  was  wit- 
ness to  a  charter  granted  by  Walter,  Steward  of  Scotland, 
in  1 1 77,  and  in  the  middle  of  the  Sixteenth  Century  the 
Ewings  acquired  the  lands,  in  County  Dumbarton,  which 
were  an  ancient  possession  of  the  Earls  of  Lennox,  and  they 
also  possessed  valuable  estates  in  County  Argyll.' 

The  authentic  ancient  Ewing  coat  of  arms  consists  of 
arg.,  a  chevron  az.,  ensigned  with  a  banner  gu.,  charged 
with  a  canton  az.,  thereon  a  saltire  arg.,  all  between  two 
mullets  in  chief  gu.,  sun  in  splendor  in  base,  also  gu.,  with 
crest  and  motto  as  shown  in  illustration. 

The  Ewings  are  of  Scottish  extraction,  and  were  long 
settled  in  the  W'est  of  Scotland,  but  the  branches  of  the 
family  in  America,  to  which  this  record  particularly  relates, 
were  of  Scotch-Irish  descent.  The  clan  with  which  these 
Ewings  were  identified  was  allied  with  the  Campbells,  as 
opposed  to  the  Gordons,  and  doubtless  many  a  time  on  the 
field  of  battle  its  members  were  inspired  by  the  romantic, 
thrilling  song — 

"The  Campbells  are  comin',  Oho,  Oho ; 
The  Campbells  are  comin'.  Oho,  Oho, 
The  Campbells  are  comin'  to  bonnie  Loch  Leven, 
The  Campbells  are  comin'.  Oho,  Oho." 

•Scottish  Nation;  Phelan's  History  of  Tennessee,  p.  132;  Weeklcy's  Romanc 
of  Names,  p.  38. 

'Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  p.  12U. 


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Ewing  progenitors  of  whom  we  are  writing,  being  Pres- 
byterians, left  their  seat,  which  was  on  the  River  Forth  near 
Stiriing  Castle,  in  the  vicinity  of  Loch  Lomond,  on  account 
of  religious  persecution  of  the  Protestants.  First,  they  went 
to  the  Isle  of  Bute,  in  Scotland,  and  then  settled  at  or  near 
Coleraine,  County  Londonderry,  of  Ulster,  to  the  North  of 
Ireland.  Members  of  the  family  conspicuously  took  part  in 
the  notable  revolt  of  the  Irish  Presbyterians  in  that  County 
in  1689,  when  the  siege  of  Londonderry  by  King  James  II 
of  England  proved  unsuccessful.  That  King,  it  will  be  re- 
called, was  an  ardent  Romanist,  intensely  inimical  to  the 
Dissenters. 

Whatever  may  have  been  the  part  taken  by  the  Ewings 
in  the  siege  just  mentioned,  it  is  beyond  doubt  that  in  the 
battle  of  the  Boyne,  fought  on  the  river  of  that  name  in 
Eastern  Ireland,  July  12  (N.  S.),  1690,  in  which  King 
James  II  was  opposed  by  William  of  Orange,  Captain 
Charles  Ewing  took  part  on  the  side  of  the  Irish  Protestants 
under  William  of  Orange,  and  was  awarded  by  the  latter 
for  his  valor  in  the  battle  a  silver-handled  sword.  This 
sword  was  brought  to  America  by  a  descendant  of  Captain 
Charles  Ewing,  but  was  later  stolen.^ 

The  anniversary  of  this  battle  of  the  Boyne,  as  the  result 
of  which  James  II  was  forced  to  abdicate  in  favor  of  the 
rule  of  William  and  Mary,  is  still  celebrated  by  the  Orange- 
men or  Irish  Protestants. 

The  dissatisfaction  of  the  Dissenters  over  the  conditions 
which  had  prevailed  in  Ireland,  among  them  the  sacra- 
mental test  which  served  to  disqualify  them  for  office,  and 
the  tenantry  system  with  its  high  and  burdensome  rents,  and 
the  increase  of  tithes  for  clergy  not  of  their  faith  and  en- 
tertaining a  different  view  of  civil  and  religious  liberty,  had 
resulted  in  a  desire  on  the  part  of  many  of  them  to  escape 
the  irritating  situations  of  the  Old  World,  and  to  seek  their 
fortunes  in  America.^ 


'Autobiography  of  Thomas  Ewing,  by  Clement  L.  Martzolff,  Vol.  XXI,  Ohio  Stats 
Archaeological  &  Historical  Society  Publications. 

=James  Seaton  Raid's  History  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Ireland,  particularly 
Vol.  Ill,  pp.  201-262. 


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CHAPTER  II 

THE  DIFFERENT  BRANCHES  OF  THE  EVVINGS  IN  AMERICA 
THOMAS  AND  FINLEY  EWING 

who  were  brothers,  emigrated  from  County  Londonderry, 
Ireland,  about  1718,  to  Southampton,  Long  Island,  thence 
to  New  Jersey. 

The  illustrious  career  of  members  of  this  branch  of  the 
family,  particularly  in  Ohio,  is  a  part  of  familiar  history. 

Thomas  Ewing,  born  1695,  died  1747;  married  Mary 
Maskell,  born  1701,  died  1784,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Daniel  Maskell.  They  lived  at  Greenwich,  New  Jersey, 
one  of  their  sons  being  Thomas  Ewing,  born  1722,  died  1772, 
whose  third  wife  was  Sarah  Vickars,  by  whom  he  had  a  son, 
George  Ewing,  born  1754,  died  1825,  who  was  a  Lieutenant 
in  the  Continental  Army,  and  whose  wife  was  Rachel  Harris. 

From  this  union  was  born  Thomas  Ewing  (1789-1871), 
United  States  Senator  from  Ohio,  who  married  Maria,  a 
daughter  of  Hugh  Boyle,  whose  wife  was  a  daughter  of 
Neil  and  Eleanor  (Daugherty)  Gillespie,  senior,  who  lived 
opposite  Brownsville,  Pennsylvania,  but  in  Washington 
County. 

Thomas  and  Maria  Ewing  were  the  parents  of  seven  chil- 
dren: (i)  Philemon  Beecher,  late  of  Lancaster,  Ohio; 
(2)  George;  (3)  Ellen  B.,  who  became  the  wife  of  General 
William  T.  Sherman;  (4)  Hugh  Boyle,  late  of  Lancaster, 
Ohio;  (5)  Thomas,  once  a  democratic  candidate  for  Gov- 
ernor of  Ohio;  (6)  Maria,  wife  of  Colonel  Clement  F. 
Steele,  and  (7)  General  Charles  Ewing. 

Two  of  the  sons  of  Thomas  Ewing  (1695-1747)  were 
officers  in  the  Militia  during  the  Revolution,  and  another 
son,  Samuel,  was  a  County  Judge.  The  emigrant  Thomas 
Ewing  was  a  deacon,  and  his  son  Thomas  an  elder,  in  the 
Presbyterian  Church  at  Greenwich. 

Finley  Ewing,  the  emigrant  brother,  was  the  lineal  ances- 
tor of  General  Hugh  Ewing,  late  United  States  Minister  to 
The  Netherlands. 

These  brothers,  Thomas  and  Finley,  were  sons  of  Captain 
Charles  Ewing,  who  was  rewarded  for  his  valor  by  William, 
Prince  of  Orange,  in  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  with  the  silver- 
handled  sword  before  mentioned. 

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6  The  Ewing  Genealogy  w'tii  Cognate  Branches 

A  descendant  of  this  emigration  with  whom  the  authors 
^re  acquainted  is  Thomas  J.  Ewing,  a  prominent  citizen  of 
"Houston,  Texas,  connected  with  large  business  interests. 

To  go  at  greater  length  into  the  personal  history  of  this 
distinguished  branch  of  the  family  would  be  to  indulge  in 
unnecessary  repetition,  as  its  illustrious  career  has  already 
been  written  into  enduring  records/ 

JAMES  EWIN 

son  of  William  and  Mary  Ewing  of  the  North  of  Ireland, 
married  Deborah  Dickson,  and  of  this  union  was  born  a 
family  of  children  in  the  townland  of  Tawley,  County 
Leitrim,  Ireland.  After  marrying,  he,  James  Ewing,  adopt- 
ed the  former  spelling  of  his  surname,  dropping  the  g. 

He  emigrated  from  Ireland  and  settled  in  New  York  City 
about  the  year  1822. 

There  are  in  America  numerous  descendants  of  this 
branch,  which  included  James  L.  Ewin,  Esq.,  who  was  a 
registered  attorney  of  the  United  States  Patent  Office, 
Washington,  D.  C.,  and  a  man  of  prominence  in  his 
profession." 

NATHANIEL   EWING 

was  born  at  or  near  Coleraine,  County  Londonderry,  Ire- 
land, about  1692,  died  September  6,  1748,  and  emigrated 
thence  to  America  in  1725  with  his  wife,  Rachel  Porter, 
who  was  his  cousin,  and  their  children  then  born. 

His  father  was  William  Ewing,  born  about  1665-1670, 
near  Stirling  Castle,  in  Scotland,  whence  he  went  to  County 
Londonderry,  Ireland,  taking  up  his  abode  at  or  near  Cole- 
raine, which  was  probably  in  or  about  the  year  16S5,  for  in 
that  year,  during  Passion  W^eek,  the  rites  of  the  Church  of 
Rome  were  openly  celebrated  at  Westminster  with  full 
splendor,  and  in  the  same  year,  the  suppression  of  the  Duke 
of  Monmouth's  rebellion  in  England,  and  that  of  the  Earl 
of  Argyll  in  Scotland,  was  followed  by  great  severities, 
practiced  by  the  King  (James  II  of  England  and  VII  of 
Scotland),  resulting  in  many  of  the  Scotch  Presbyterians 
fleeing  from  Scotland  to  the  North  of  Ireland  to  escape  the 
religious  persecutions  imposed  upon  them.' 

William  Ewing,  who  was  the  son  of  William  Ewing  and 
his  wife,  Eliza  Milford,  married  twice ;  by  the  first  marriage 

^Autobiography  of  Thomas  Ewing,  Vohinie  XXI.  Ohio  State  Archaeological 
&  Historical  Society  Publications;  Biog.  Ency.  of  Ohio,  Volume  1,  page  273, 
Volume  6,  page  1491;   Scott's   History  of  Fairfield   County,  Ohio,   1877. 

-Sketch  by  James  L.  Ewin  of  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  International  Cyclopedia,  page  229. 


The  Ewixg  Genealogy  with  Cocnate  Braxciie-  7 

he  had  one  son,  the  emigrant  Nathaniel,  and  by  the  second 
marriage  he  had  four  sons  and  a  daughter :  WilHam,  Joshua, 
James,  Samuel  and  Anne,  and  possibly  other  children.  All 
of  these  named  were  immigrants  to  this  country,  and  some 
at  least  accompanied  their  half-brother  Nathaniel  to 
America,  in  1725,  and  in  the  same  emigration  were  members 
of  the  Porter  and  Gillespie  families,  and  also  David 
Breading. 


ERRATA. 

Pp.  5,  8  and  9. 

The  text,  in  ascribing  to  Gen.  Hugh  Boyle  Ewing 
lineal  descent  from  Finley  Ewing,  an  "emigrant  brother" 
of  the  emigrant  Thomas  Ewing.  followed  the  Biog.  Ency. 
&  Portrait  Gallery  of  Ohio.  Vol.  6,  at  p.  1491,  where  it 
is  said:  "The  father  of  the  emigrant,  Finley  Ewing,  was 
of  the  Clan  Colquhoun  *  *  *".  This  sentence  was  evident- 
ly faulty  in  not  being  so  framed  as  to  make  "father" 
instead  of  "emigrant"  the  antecedent  of  Finley  Ewing; 
for  a  close  study  of  the  context,  as  well  as  extrinsic  matter, 
makes  it  certain  that  Gen.  Hugh  Boyle  Ewing  was  a  des- 
cendant of  the  emigrant  Thomas  Ewing. 

Whether  the  latter's  father  was  named  Finley  or 
Charles,  or  bore  both  names,  is  not  certain,  the  traditions 
and  evidences  being  conflicting,  but  whatever  his  Chris- 
tian name,  it  was  the  father  of  the  emigrant  Thomas  Ewing. 
who  was  the  gallant  Captain  in  the  Battle  of  the  Boyne, 
to  whom  the  silver-handled  sword  was  awarded  for  valor, 
as  stated  in  the  text. 


some  of  them,  removing  to  Georgia. 

One  of  the  grandsons,  and  perhaps  others  of  the  family, 
subsequently  went  to  Texas,  where  a  number  of  their  de- 
scendants may  be  found,  with  some  of  whom  the  authors 
have  a  personal  acquaintance,  among  them  Edna  Ewing,  the 
cultured  and  socially  attractive  wife  of  John  Bonner,  of 
Houston,  who  is  an  esteemed  citizen  and  high-ranking 
Mason. 

CHARLES    AND    ROBERT    EWING 

who  v/ere  brothers,  were  born  in  County  Londonderry,  Ire- 
land, probably  at  or  near  Coleraine,  about  1715-1725,  and 


6  The  Ewing  Genealogy  wttii  Cogjs^ate  Branches 

A  descendant  of  this  emigration  with  whom  the  authors 
^re  acquainted  is  Thomas  J.  Ewing,  a  prominent  citizen  of 
"Houston,  Texas,  connected  with  large  business  interests. 

To  go  at  greater  length  into  the  personal  history  of  this 
distinguished  branch  of  the  family  would  be  to  indulge  in 
unnecessary  repetition,  as  its  illustrious  career  has  already 
been  written  into  enduring  records/ 

JAMES  EWIN 

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of  Argyll  in  Scotland,  was  followed  by  great  severities, 
practiced  by  the  King  (James  II  of  England  and  VII  of 
Scotland),  resulting  in  many  of  the  Scotch  Presbyterians 
fleeing  from  Scotland  to  the  North  of  Ireland  to  escape  the 
religious  persecutions  imposed  upon  them.' 

William  Ewing,  who  was  the  son  of  William  Ewing  and 
his  wife,  Eliza  Milford,  m.arried  twice;  by  the  first  marriage 

^Autobiography  of  Tliomas  Ewing,  Volume  XXI,  Ohio  State  Archaeological 
&  Historical  Society  Publications;  Biog.  Ency.  of  Ohio,  Volume  1,  page  273, 
Volume  6,  page  1491;   Scott's  History  of  Fairfield   County,  Ohio,   1877. 

^Sketch  by  James  L.   Ewin  of  Washington,   D.   C. 
The  International  Cyclopedia,  page  229. 


The  Ewixg  Genealogy  with  Coc.xate  Bkaxciie-  7 

he  had  one  son,  the  emigrant  Nathaniel,  and  by  the  second 
marriage  he  had  four  sons  and  a  daughter :  William,  Joshua, 
James,  Samuel  and  Anne,  and  possibly  other  children.  All 
of  these  named  were  immigrants  to  this  country,  and  some 
at  least  accompanied  their  half-brother  Nathaniel  to 
America,  in  1725,  and  in  the  same  emigration  were  members 
of  the  Porter  and  Gillespie  families,  and  also  David 
Breading. 

Nathaniel  Ewing  and  his  half-brother,  Joshua  Ewing, 
settled  in  Maryland  on  the  east  side  of  the  Susquehanna, 
in  Cecil  County,  near  the  Pennsylvania  line.  The  half- 
brother,  James  Ewing,  took  up  his  abode  in  what  became 
Prince  Edward  County,  Virginia,  and  the  other  half-broth- 
ers, William  for  certain,  and  Samuel  probably,  settled  in 
Pennsylvania ;  but  we  have  no  record  of  the  descendants  of 
the  half-brothers  Joshua,  Jamics  and  Samuel. 

WILLIAM    EWING 

was  probably  born  in  County  Londonderry,  Ireland,  about 
the  year  1710,  but  family  tradition,  evidently  confusing  him 
with  his  father,  has  fixed  his  birth  at  Stirlingshire,  Scotland, 
in  the  vicinity  of  Glasgow,  near  Loch  Lomond,  whence  his 
father  emigrated  to  County  Londonderry,  Ireland.  This 
tradition  has  also  accorded  to  him,  likely  again  confusing 
him  with  his  father,  an  elder  brother  Robert,  who  v/as  a 
feudal  baron. 

This  emigrant,  himself  Scotch,  probably  married  in  Ire- 
land an  Irish  girl  before  coming  to  America,  which  accounts 
for  the  manifest  Scotch-Irish  ancestry  noticeable  in  the 
descendants  of  this  branch  of  the  family  as  well  as  in  those 
of  the  other  branches. 

William  first  settled  in  Pennsylvania,  and  later  went  to 
Virginia,  where  he  died,  his  widow  and  children,  at  least 
some  of  them,  removing  to  Georgia. 

One  of  the  grandsons,  and  perhaps  others  of  the  family, 
subsequently  went  to  Texas,  where  a  number  of  their  de- 
scendants may  be  found,  with  some  of  whom  the  authors 
have  a  personal  acquaintance,  among  them  Edna  Ewing,  the 
cultured  and  socially  attractive  wife  of  John  Bonner,  of 
Houston,  who  is  an  esteemed  citizen  and  high-ranking 
Mason. 

CHARLES    AND    ROBERT    EWING 

who  v/ere  brothers,  were  born  in  County  Londonderry,  Ire- 
land, probably  at  or  near  Coleraine,  about  171 5-1 725,  and 


8  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

emigrated  thence  to  America  about  the  period  between 
1 735- 1747- 

They  were  cousins  of  the  emigrant  Nathaniel  Ewing,  and 
on  their  arrival  in  America,  they  first  went  to  his  home,  in 
Cecil  County,  Maryland,  but  shortly  after  accompanied 
their  cousin,  the  emigrant  James  Ewing,  Nathaniel's  half- 
brother,  to  what  became  Prince  Edward  County,  Virginia, 
and  later  they  joined  a  new  adventurous  colony  and  settled 
near  the  Peaks  of  Otter,  in  Bedford  County,  Virginia,  where 
they  remained  until  they  died. 

The  relationship  of  the  different  Ewing  emigrants  to 
whom  we  have  referred,  is  doubtless  already  apparent  to  the 
thoughtful  reader. 

We  have  seen  that  Thomas  and  Finley  Ewing  were  broth- 
ers, and  that  Robert  and  Charles  Ewing  were  brothers,  and 
that  the  latter  were  cousins  of  Nathaniel  Ewing  and  his 
half-brothers  and  sister.  While  direct  or  positive  evidence 
is  wanting  as  to  further  kinship,  the  circumstances  are  con- 
vincing that  all  the  Ewing  emigrants  we  have  noted  were 
relatives,  with  the  possible  exception  of  James  Ewin,  the 
emigrant  who  settled  in  New  York. 

In  the  family  of  the  authors,  there  has  been  from  the 
earliest  a  tradition,  that  Captain  Charles  Ewing,  the  gallant 
soldier  rewarded  by  William  of  Orange  for  valor  in  the 
battle  of  the  Boyne,  was  of  their  family ;  he  was  the  father 
of  the  emigrants,  Thomas  and  Finley  Ewing,  and  hence  the 
tradition  could  be  true  only  on  the  theory  of  these  emi- 
grants being  cousins  of  the  emigrants,  Robert  and  Charles 
Ewing,  or  otherwise  related. 

When  the  historic  causes  leading  to  the  exodus  of  the 
Ewings  from  their  seat  near  Stirling  Castle,  in  Scotland,  to 
the  North  of  Ireland  and  thence  to  America,  are  considered 
in  the  light  of  the  fact  that  they  came  to  this  country,  not 
Scotch  alone,  but  Scotch-Irish,  and  that  the  emigration 
from  Ireland  was  from  the  same  vicinity,  it  seems  irre- 
sistibly clear  that  the  Ewing  emigrants  mentioned  were  all 
in  some  manner  related. 

In  concluding  this  chapter,  we  observe  that  there  have 
been  men  and  women  in  each  generation,  from  each  of  the 
branches  we  have  considered,  distinguished  in  practically 
every  walk  of  life,  exemplifying  our  country's  best  ideals 
and  traditions,  and  making  for  the  perpetuity  and  glory  of 
its  institutions.    As  illustrative  of  this  we  mention  a  few  of 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cogis-ate  Branches  9 

the  leaders  in  thought  and  action,  in  addition  to  those  whose 
careers  are  elsewhere  given. 

Emma  Pike  Ewing,  educator,  born  Broome  County,  New 
York,  1838;  married  W.  P.  Ewing,  1863;  dean  Chautauqua 
Assembly  Cooking  School ;  professor  domestic  economy, 
Iowa  Agricultural  College ;  director  Model  School  of  House- 
hold Economics,  affiliated  with  Marietta  College,  Ohio ; 
author  of  "The  Art  of  Cookery,"  and  other  books.' 

Hugh  Boyle  Ewing,  born  Lancaster,  Ohio,  October  31, 
1826,  died  1905;  married  Henrietta  Young,  1858;  practiced 
law  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  later  at  Leavenworth,  Kan- 
sas; was  major  to  brigadier  general  and  bvt.  major  general 
on  the  side  of  the  Union  in  the  Civil  War ;  minister  to  The 
Hague,  1866-70;  author  of  "A  Castle  in  the  Air,"  besides 
other  writings.' 

James  Stevenson  Ewing,  born  McLean  County,  Illinois, 
July  19,  1835,  a  lawyer,  cousin  and  partner  of  the  United 
States  Vice  President  (1893- 1897),  Adlai  Ewing  Steven- 
son, who  was  born  in  Christian  County,  Kentucky,  son  of 
John  T.  and  Eliza  (Ewing)  Stevenson.  He  (James  S. 
Ewing)  was  United  States  Minister  to  Belgium  in  1893- 
1897.= 

John  Gillespie  Ewing,  lawyer,  born  Lancaster,  Ohio,  May 
22,  i860,  son  of  Philemon  B.  and  Mar)-  Rebecca  (Gillespie) 
Ewing;  professor  mathematics  and  later  of  history  and  eco- 
nomics, Notre  Dame  University ;  State  deputy  of  Indiana 
Knights  of  Columbus." 

James  Ewing,  physician,  born  Pittsburgh,  December  25, 
1866;  professor  pathology,  Medical  Department,  Cornell 
University;  author  of  articles  on  "The  Signs  of  Death," 
"Sudden  Death,"  etc' 

Nathaniel  Ewing,  jurist,  born  Uniontown,  Pennsylvania, 
June  17,  1848;  died  March  28,  1914;  appointed  Judge  Four- 
teenth Judicial  District  of  Pennsylvania,  and  later  United 
States  District  Judge,  Western  District  of  Pennsylvania.' 

James  Caruthers  Rhea  Ewing,  born  Rural  Valley,  Penn- 
sylvania, June  23,  1854;  Presbyterian  minister  and  mission- 
ary in  India ;  professor  in  Theological  Seminary  in  India ; 
president  Forman  Christian  College,  Lahore,  India,  after- 
wards dean  faculty  of  arts,  Punjabu,  later  vice-chancellor.' 

Thomas  Ewing,  Jr.,  born  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  May  21, 

^Who's   Who   in   America,   1903-1905,  page  466. 
=Id.,   1906-1907,  page  567. 
'Id.,  1912-1913,  page  664. 


10  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

1862;  son  of  General  Thomas  and  Ellen  (Cox)  Ewing;  a 
lawyer,  distinguished  for  his  achievements  as  a  solicitor 
of  patents/ 

Robert  Ewing,  born  Mobile,  Alabama,  September  27, 
1859;  has  had  phenomenal  success  in  newspaper  enterprise; 
became  publisher  and  owner  of  N.  O.  Daily  States ;  State 
Tax  Collector  Fourth  Municipal  District;  Louisiana  mem- 
ber Democratic  National  Committee,  and  member  of  Louis- 
iana Constitutional  Convention.' 

The  honors  to  the  family  from  these  distinguished  per- 
sons, as  observable  from  the  places  of  their  birth,  are  pretty 
equally  distributed  among  the  different  emigrations  to  which 
we  have  adverted,  and  hence  their  achievements  may  be  re- 
garded a  common  heritage. 


'Who's  "Who  in  America,    191G-1917,  page  776 


CHAPTER  III 

NATHANIEL   EWING,   THE   EMIGRANT;    HIS   BIRTH,    MARRIAGE, 

CAREER-  AND  DESCENDANTS 

NATHANIEL  EWING 

as  before  stated,  married  his  cousin,  Rachel  Porter,  about 
1721,  at  or  near  Coleraine,  County  Londonderry,  Ireland, 
and  from  the  marriage  were  born  the  foHowing  children: 

1.  Sarah,  born  at  or  near  Coleraine,  1722;  married  Rob- 
ert Potts.  They  lived  in  Lancaster  County,  Pennsylvania, 
above  where  Harrisburg  now  stands,  and  reared  there  a 
considerable  family. 

2.  William,  born  at  or  near  Coleraine,  1 723-1 724;  died 
September  10,  1788;  married  Kitty  Ewing,  daughter  of  the 
emigrant,  Joshua  Ewing. 

3.  Anne,  born  on  the  Atlantic  Ocean,  1725;  died  1809. 

4.  John,  born  Little  Britain,  Lancaster  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, June  21,  1732;  died  September  8,  1802;  married  Han- 
nah Sargent.  He  was  a  distinguished  clergyman  of  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  referred  to  as  "the 
noted  Philadelphian." 

5.  James,  born  June  21,  1732  (a  twin  to  John)  ;  died 
1818-1819;  married  Peggy  Ewing. 

6.  Rachel  Margaret,  born  Little  Britain,  1735;  married 
her  cousin,  William  Ewing. 

7.  George,  born  at  Little  Britain,  September  i,  1737; 
died  April,  1785. 

8.  Alexander,  born  1740,  died  June  or  July,  1799;  mar- 
ried Jane  Kirkpatrick. 

William  Ewing,  the  eldest  son  of  Nathaniel  the  emigrant, 
lived  in  Maryland  until  his  death,  leaving  two  children,  a 
daughter  Rachel,  who  married  Stephen  Dancy,  and  a  son, 
Nathaniel,  who  went  to  Kentucky,  joined  the  Kentucky 
Militia,  and  was  killed  at  Fort  Meigs,  under  General  Har- 
rison. 

Anne,  daughter  of  the  emigrant  Nathaniel  Ewing,  married 
in  1745  James  Breading,  born  1726,  who  lived  in  Notting- 
ham, Pennsylvania,  but  afterwards  purchased  a  plantation 
adjoining  the  Maryland  line  and  Susquehanna  River,  in 
Pennsylvania,  where  they  reared  six  children :  Mar}',  Na- 
thaniel, Rachel,  David,  Sarah  and  Anne. 

The  eldest  daughter,  Mary  Breading,  married  Hugh 
Laughlin  and  lived  in  Fayette  County,  Pennsylvania,  having 
a  large  family. 

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12  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

Nathaniel  Breading,  the  eldest  son,  born  at  Little  Britain, 
March  17,  1751 ;  died  April  15,  1821,  at  Tower  Hill  Farm, 
near  Merrittstown,  Fayette  County,  Pennsylvania;  married 
in  Cecil  County,  Maryland,  June  17,  1784,  his  cousin,  Mary 
Ewing  (daughter  of  George  Ewing,  son  of  the  emigrant 
Nathaniel),  born  Nottingham,  April  i,  1767;  died  at  Alle- 
gheny, Pennsylvania,  August  31,  1845;  removed  to  Fayette 
County,  Pennsylvania ;  their  children,  besides  those  dying 
in  infancy,  being  George,  born  August  19,  1785;  Mary  Ann, 
born  September  4,  1787;  James  Ewing,  born  October  19, 
1789;  William,  born  December  3,  1791 ;  Sarah,  born  Janu- 
ary 3,  1796;  Harriet,  born  May  11,  1803;  Caroline  Mar- 
garet, born  August  3,  1807,  and  Elizabeth,  born  August  8, 
1810.  The  daughter,  Caroline  Margaret,  married  a  Mr. 
Trevor,  the  youngest  son  of  the  marriage  being  Francis 
Nathaniel  Trevor,  of  Lockport,  New  York.  Another  of  the 
daughters  is  understood  to  have  married  George  Hogg,  of 
Allegheny,  Pennsylvania,  the  father  of  John  T.  Hogg  and 
Nathaniel  Breading  Hogg. 

Nathaniel  Breading,  son  of  James  and  Anne  (Ewing) 
Breading,  was  in  the  service  of  the  Revolutionary  Army, 
1777-1778,  at  Valley  Forge,  in  receiving  and  distributing 
goods  bought  and  sent  to  the  Army  by  his  uncle,  George 
Ewing,  while  his  younger  brother,  David  Breading,  was 
Temporary  Aide  to  General  Maxwell,  at  Princeton,  and  was 
General  Washington's  guide,  under  General  Maxwell's  de- 
tail, in  leading  the  former  to  the  retreating  army  of  General 
Lee,  at  whom  it  is  said  W^ashington  swore  vehemently, 
deprecating  and  countermanding  the  retreat  which  Lee  had 
ordered. 

George  Ewing,  son  of  the  emigrant  Nathaniel,  married 
April  8,  1766,  Mary  Porter,  daughter  of  James  and  Ellen 
(Gillespie)  Porter;  he,  James  Porter,  being  the  brother-in- 
law  of  the  emigrant  Nathaniel,  and  having  emigrated  from 
County  Londonderry,  Ireland,  shortly  after  the  arrival  in 
America  of  Nathaniel  Ewing  and  his  half-brothers  and  sis- 
ter.   Children  of  this  union  were : 

1.  Mary,  born  April  i,  1767;  died  August  31,  1845,  ^t 
Allegheny,  Pennsylvania ;  married  Nathaniel  Breading,  as 
above  stated. 

2.  William  Porter,  born  May  (or  December)  19,  1769; 
died  October  21,  1827,  Fayette  County,  Pennsylvania;  mar- 
ried Mary  Conwell,  1791.     They  had  a  son,  John  H.,  born 


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October  5,  1796,  Fayette  County,  Pennsylvania,  who  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of  James  Blaine,  son  of  Colonel  Ephraim 
Blaine  of  Revolutionary  fame.  It  may  be  here  remarked 
that  this  James  Blaine  was  also  the  father  of  Ephraim  Blaine 
II,  who  married  Maria  Gillespie,  daughter  of  Neil  Gillespie, 
Jr.,  and  his  wife,  Miss  Purcell,  of  Centerville,  Washington 
County,  Pennsylvania ;  from  which  union  were  born  seven 
children,  among  them  the  illustrious  United  States  Senator 
and  statesman  from  Maine,  James  G.  Blaine,  defeated  for 
the  Presidency  of  the  United  States  by  Grover  Cleveland, 
in  1884. 

3.  Ellen  (or  Eleanor),  born  August  3,  1774;  married 
William  Oliphant ;  lived  and  died  near  Marietta,  Ohio. 

4.  Nathaniel,  born  April  10,  1772;  died  August  6,  1846, 
near  Vincennes,  Indiana. 

5.  James,  born  September  25,  1776;  married  Rebecca 
Morgan,  and  died  1859,  in  Missouri,  leaving  sons  and 
daughters,  having  previously  lived  in  Prince  Edward  Coun- 
ty, Virginia,  where  he  married,  subsequently  removing  in 
1843-1844  to  Chariton  County,  Missouri.  Their  youngest 
daughter  married  Dr.  Dewey,  of  Keytesville,  Missouri,  to 
whom  was  born  a  daughter  who  married  Andrew  Mackay, 
of  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

He  (George  Ewing)  was  a  Commissary  under  appoint- 
ment of  Colonel  Ephraim  Blaine  to  purchase  for  the  Army, 
and  under  this  appointment  he  bought  and  sent  goods,  upon 
his  own  personal  responsibility,  to  Washington's  Army  at 
Valley  Forge,  in  the  winter  of  1777.  The  Government  being 
unable  to  pay  the  debts  he  thus  incurred,  his  individual 
property  was  all  sold  to  satisfy  them,  leaving  him  and  his 
family  destitute ;  he  died,  and  the  family  was  taken  to  Fay- 
ette County,  Pennsylvania,  1786,  by  his  son-in-law,  Na- 
thaniel Breading. 

Nathaniel  Ewing,  son  of  George  and  grandson  of  the 
emigrant  Nathaniel  Ewing,  married  October  i,  1793,  Ann 
Breading.  Their  children  were  :  Mary,  born  June  16,  1794; 
died  November  3,  1865;  married  February  26,  1818,  Dr. 
William  Carr  Lane.  Rachel,  born  June  10,  1796;  died  Jan- 
uary 24,  1836;  married  May  3,  1820,  Daniel  Jencks,  of 
Terre  Haute,  Indiana.  George  W.  born  March  4,  1798; 
died  September  15,  1838;  married  May  11,  1837,  Grace  H. 
Law,  Vincennes,  Indiana.  James,  born  April  6,  1800;  died 
March  10,  1877;  married  July,  i860,  Eliza  Shaw.  Eliza, 
born  August  3,   1802;  died  July,  1808.     Sarah,  born  July 


14  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  CogiXate  Beaxches 

12,  1804;  died  March  10,  1877;  married  November  28,  1822, 
John  Law.  Harriet,  born  February  9,  1807;  died  August 
10,  1877;  married  November  29,  1826,  James  Farrington. 
WiUiam  Lane,  born  January  31,  1809;  died  October  2.2, 
1873.  CaroHne  Sidney,  born  February  11,  181 1;  married 
November  21,  1833,  George  W.  Mears.  Nathaniel,  born 
April  13,  1815;  died  November,  1816. 

The  father  of  these  children,  Nathaniel  Ewing,  the 
younger,  was  a  man  of  remarkable  ability.  He  was  at  one 
time  head  of  the  Newark  Academy,  Delaware,  being  induced 
to  accept  the  position  by  his  uncle.  Rev.  John  Ewing,  of 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  He  removed  to  Vincennes,  In- 
diana, in  1807,  to  fill  an  appointment  from  the  Government 
as  Receiver  of  Public  Moneys ;  subsequently  he  became  a 
member  of  the  Territorial  Legislature,  and  was  distinguished 
for  legislative  talents  of  a  high  order;  he  was  one  of  the 
men  who,  in  spite  of  great  opposition,  insisted  that  Indiana, 
upon  her  admission  to  the  Union,  should  be  a  free  State. 
He  died  at  Mont  Clair,  Indiana,  in  1846,  aged  seventy-four, 
having  exerted  mentionable  influence  upon  the  period  in 
which  he  lived.^ 

The  descendants  of  Nathaniel  Ewing  have,  in  a  marked 
degree,  left  their  impress  upon  the  history  of  St.  Louis,  and 
are  still  making  history ;  and  to  a  very  notable  one  of  them, 
we  now  direct  attention. 

William  Lane  Ewing,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Ann  (Bread- 
ing) Ewing,  was  born  at  Mont  Clair,  the  family  homestead, 
near  Vincennes,  Indiana;  and  after  enjoying  a  successful 
business  career  of  several  years,  he  embarked,  on  January 
I,  1839,  in  the  wholesale  grocery  and  commission  business 
in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  with  Pierre  A.  Berthold  and  Louis 
P.  Tesson.  The  firm  of  Berthold  &  Ewing  won  a  high  place 
in  the  business  world,  and  was  rapidly  advancing  to  fame 
and  fortune  when,  in  1849,  the  business  was  destroyed  by 
fire.  Mr.  Ewing,  nothing  daunted  by  the  unexpected  calam- 
ity, soon  resumed  business  under  the  name  of  William  L. 
Ewing  &  Co.,  which  became  one  of  the  largest  establish- 
ments in  the  city.  He  was  identified  with  many  private  and 
public  enterprises,  and  was  much  honored;  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Merchants  National  Bank,  a  member  of  the  St. 
Louis  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  Association,  was  one 
of  the  original  members  of  the  Merchants'  Exchange,  and 
a  stockholder  and  director  in  numerous  other  enterprises  of 

^Scharf's    History   of   St.   Louis,   Volume    1,   page   717. 


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importance  to  the  city  and  State.  He  died  October  26,  1873, 
at  Dailey  Springs,  near  Florence,  Alabama,  where  he  had 
gone  for  his  health,  and  was  buried  in  Calvary  Cemetery, 
St.  Louis,  Missouri.' 

William  Lane  Ewing,  married  February,^  1838,  Claire 
Berthold,  sister  of  his  partner,  Pierre  A.  Berthold,  and 
daughter  of  Bartholomew  and  Pelagic  C.  Berthold.  Their 
children  were:  Auguste  Berthold,  born  April  6,  1839;  mar- 
ried September  8,  1869,  Mary  McCausland.  Ann  Emily, 
born  August  26,  1841.  William  Lane,  born  March  16,  1843; 
married  July  17,  1883,  Mary  Fleming.  Nathaniel  P.,  born 
January  23,  1845;  died  May  13,  1846.  Pelagic  Isabel,  born 
November  19,  1846;  married  October  4,  1865,  Charles  T. 
Taylor.  George,  born  April  9,  1848;  died  September  6, 
1853.  James,  born  .April  13,  1850;  died  April  21,  1852. 
Ernest  L.,  born  July  14,  1851 ;  died  July  30,  1852.  Emily 
Kennedy,  born  March  2,  1853;  died  February  13,  1869. 
Frederick  Berthold,  born  March  2,  1853 ;  died  February  10, 
1897;  married  September  11,  1878,  J.  Valle.  Clara  Louise, 
born  September  7,  1855;  married  February  27,  1878,  Wil- 
liam Sidney  Wilson. 

Ann  Emily  Ewing,  daughter  of  William  Lane  Ewing, 
married  (i)  July  i,  1865,  William  Covington  Mitchell,  and 
(2)  February  19,  1879,  George  W.  Kerr.  From  her  mar- 
riage with  William  Covington  Mitchell  was  born  a  number 
of  children,  among  them  Clara  Pelagic,  born  November  24, 
1867;  died  April  20,  1901 ;  married  November  26,  1890, 
Malcolm  Macbeth,  a  prominent  real  estate  and  financial 
agent  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  Their  children,  Clara  Mitchell 
Macbeth,  born  October  25,  1893;  George  Kerr,  born  Sep- 
tember 24,  1896;  D.  St.  Julien,  born  September  13,  1898; 
Malcolm  Mitchell,  born  April  20,  1901 ;  Agnes  Pearson, 
born  and  died  April  20,  1901. 

A  distinguished  branch  of  the  Ewings,  which  we  accredit 
to  this  emigration,  descends  from  Nathaniel  Ewing,  of  or 
near  Charlotte,  and  afterwards  of  Statesville,  North  Caro- 
lina, who  was  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  a 
member  of  Capt.  James  Houston's  Company,  and  engaged 
in  the  battles  of  Ramsour's  Mill,  Kings  Mountain  and  Cow- 
pens.  He  married  a  daughter  of  Col.  Alexander  Osborne,' 
and  a  son  of  this  union  was  Adlai  Osborne  Ewing,  who 
married  Sophia  Goodrich  Gillespie  Wallis. 

JScharfs   History   of   St.    Louis,   Volume   1,   page   717. 

=WheeIer's  History   of   North   Carolina,  Vol.   II,  pp.   216,  232,  368. 

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16  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

A  son  of  this  last  marriage,  Jolin  Wallis  Ewing  (1808- 
1855),  married  Maria  McClelland  Stevenson  (1802-1883), 
daughter  of  James  Stevenson  and  Nancy  Young  Brevard/ 
in  Christian  County,  Kentucky,  October  12,  1830,  later  re- 
moving to  Woodford  County,  Illinois.  They  had  seven 
children :  Adlai,  died  in  infancy ;  Nancy  Jane,  married  E. 
B.  Winchester  in  1854,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  five 
children ;  James  Stevenson,""  whose  career  has  been  else- 
where mentioned  herein,  married  Catherine  Spencer,  June, 
1866,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  six  children;  William 
Gillespie,  married  Ruth  Goodrich  in  April,  1865,  and  from 
this  union  there  were  three  children :  Henry  A.,  married 
March,  1866,  Elizabeth  J.  Merriman,  of  Hinsdale,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  from  this  marriage  there  were  seven  children ; 
Adlai  Thomas,  married  Kate  Hyde,  of  New  York,  and  to 
them  were  born  four  children. 

Issue  of  Henry  A.  Ewing  and  Elizabeth  J.  Merriman : 

1.  Henry  Wallis,  born  November  17,  1867;  married 
August  5,  1893,  Alice  Elizabeth  Sweet,  born  February  4, 
1869.  Children:  Henry  Wallis,  born  September  5,  1894; 
married  March  3,  1918,  Mary  Arden  Kelley,  born  Novem- 
ber 25,  1894.  In  the  War  with  Germany,  he  was  ist  Lieut- 
enant, 131  Field  Artillery,  American  Expeditionary  Forces, 
in  France,  stationed  at  Coetquiban,  1918;  Abbie  Jane,  born 
August  I,  1897;  Lucius  Winchester,  born  May  31,  1901 ; 
Lawrence  B.,  bom  May  31,  1901,  died  1902;  Alice  Sweet, 
born  January  6,  1906,  and  Adlai  Merriman,  born  August 
24,  191 2. 

2.  May  Brevard,  born  December  24,  1869;  married  June 
15,  1893,  Charles  F.  Scott,  born  September  7,  1866.  Child- 
ren:  Ewing  Carruth,  born  August  28,  1894;  Ruth  Merri- 
man, born  December  30,  1897;  Angelo  Campbell,  born 
November  17,  1899;  Charles  F.,  born  February  14,  1908. 

3.  Adlai  Merriman,  born  January  22,  1872;  married 
June  16,  1896,  Mary  Ella  Taylor,  born  August  i,  1875. 
Child:  Anne  McMillin,  born  January  30,  1897. 

4.  Elliott  Winchester,  born  April  13,  1874;  died  August 
19,  1891. 

5.  Richard  Avery,  born  May  20,  1877,  married  Lulu 
Jane  Myers,  February  22,  1900.  Children :  Elizabeth 
Merriman,  born  March. 6,  1901 ;  James  B.,  born  September 

'History  and  Genealogical  Record  of  the  Stevenson  Family,  by  Rev. 
Samuel    Harris    Stevenson,    1900. 

nVho's  Who  in  America,  1906-1907,  page  567. 


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]8,    1902;  Grace  Vernon,  born  September   16,  1904;  Ruth 
born  December  23,  1907. 

6.  Ruth  Stevenson,  born  May  4,  1880;  married  Perry 
O.  Hanson,  June,  1902.  Children:  Eleanor,  born  July  14, 
1903;  Richard  Ewing,  born  October  31,  1905;  Ada  ]vuth, 
born  September  8,  1907;  Margaret  Merriman,  born  July 
12,  1909;  Elizabeth  Moody,  born  September  13,   1914. 

7.  Sarah  Catherine,  born  December  8,  1882;  married 
Alexander  R.  Stroup,  June  29,  1907.  Children :  Wilson 
Elliott,  born  May  2,  1908;  Henry  Ewing,  born  March  22, 
1910;  Robert  D.,  born  May  21,  1912;  Mary  Elizabeth,  born 
November  8,  1914. 

Eliza  Ann  Ewing,  born  October  20,  1809,  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Adlai  Osborne  Ewing  and  Sophia  Goodrich  Gillespie, 
and  hence  a  sister  of  John  Wallis  Ewing.  She  married 
John  Turner  Stevenson  (1808- 1857),  son  of  James  Steven- 
son and  Nancy  Young  Brevard,  and  from  this  union  was 
born,  October  23,  1835,  the  distinguished  statesman  before 
mentioned,  Adlai  Ewing  Stevenson,  twice  Democratic 
nominee  for  Vice  President  of  the  United  States.^ 

The  other  children  of  this  union  were,  Sophia  Elizabeth, 
lorn  July  23,  1833;  James  Bell,  born  October  10,  1838; 
died  December  11,  1889;  William  W.,  born  August  15, 
1840;  Eielding  Alexander,  born  September  23,  1844;  John 
Calvin,  born  September  27,  1847,  and  Thomas  W.,  born 
August  16,  1 85 1. 

Adlai  Ewing  Stevenson,  married  December  20,  1866, 
Letitia  Green,  who  was  born  January  8,  1843.  Their 
children  were,  Lewis  Green,  born  August  15,  1868;  Mary 
Eliza,  born  September  18,  1872;  died  January  18,  1895; 
Julia  Scott,  born  June  30,  1874,  and  Letitia  Ewing,  born 
June  22,  1876. 

Still  another  branch  of  this  emigration  is  the  family  of 
George  Ewing,  identified  with  the  early  history  of  Houston, 
Texas,  where  his  son,  Nathaniel  Ewing,  a  prominent  citizen, 
now  resides.  He  was  a  companion  of  Bowie  and  Travis, 
and  an  Alcalde  of  Austin's  First  Colony,  in  the  days  of  the 
Republic. 

The  descendants  of  this  emigration,  often  referred  to  as 
the  Cecil  County  emigration,  are  scattered  throughout  the 
Union,  with  their  firm  impress  everywhere  on  the  Nation's 
progress,  but  they  are  perhaps  more  numerous  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, Virginia,  parts  of  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  and  in 
Indiana  and  Illinois,  than  in  the  other  States. 

nVho's    Who    in    America.   190X1905.   page    1420. 


CHAPTER  IV 

WILLIAM    EWING,    EMIGRANT:    HIS    BIRTH,    CHILDREN, 
AND  FAMILY  DISTINCTION 

WILLIAM    EWING 

was,  as  we  have  seen,  of  unmixed  Scotch  ancestry,  but  was 
probably  born  in  County  Londonderry,  Ireland,  about  1710, 
and  there  married  to  an  Irish  girl,  making  his  descendants 
Scotch-Irish,  as  they  unquestionably  are. 

It  has  also  been  shown  that  this  emigrant  first  settled  in 
Pennsylvania,  and  later  removed  to  Virginia,  where  he  died, 
and  that  some  of  the  family  then  took  up  their  abode  in 
Georgia,  descendants  branching  out  to  other  States,  notably 
Texas. 

The  children*  of  the  emigrant,  William  Ewing,  were  as 
follows : 

1.  Henry,  whose  career  and  descendants  will  be  given  in 
a  succeeding  chapter. 

2.  Andrew,  whose  career  and  descendants  will  also  be 
given  in  a  separate  chapter. 

3.  John,  whose  career  and  children  will  be  similarly 
stated  in  a  separate  chapter. 

4.  Elizabeth,  married  Hugh  Devier. 

5.  Nancy,  married  a  Mr.  Hogshett. 

We  have  no  record  of  the  descendants  of  these  daughters. 

True  to  the  family  distinction  in  the  old  country,  de- 
scendants of  the  emigrant  William  soon  became  prominent 
in  America. 

Henry  Ewing,  one  of  the  sons,  removed  to  Kentucky, 
where  he  has  descendants,  some  of  them  quite  noted  for 
achievements  of  a  high  order. 

Andrew  Ewing,  another  son,  removed  to  Tennessee, 
where  he  was  actively  connected  with  the  early  development 
of  Nashville,  having  been  one  of  its  founders.  His  de- 
scendants are  numerous,   many  of  them  quite  prominent, 

*The    names    of    children    are    numbered    1,    2,   3,    etc.;    grandchildren    are 
numbered  (1),  (2),  (3),  etc.;  and  where  clearness  requires,  great  grandchildren 
are  numbered   1st,   2nd,   3rd,    etc.,    after  which  letters  are  used. 
(18) 


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among  whom  are  included  Judge  Robert  Ewing,  a  man  of 
lofty  character  and  splendid  abihties,  who  made  as  Mayor 
of  the  City  of  Nashville  an  enviable  record. 

Caruthers  Ewing,  the  eminent  lawyer  of  Memphis,  Ten- 
nessee, is  probably  of  this  branch,  but  authentic  information 
to  that  effect  has  not  been  obtained. 

Another  worthy  scion  of  the  family  is  Felix  Grundy 
Ewing,  now  living  like  his  ancestors  did  of  old,  at  his 
country-seat,  "Glen  Raven,"  near  Cedar  Hill,  Tennessee, 
maternally  descended  from  the  illustrious  Felix  Grundy 
(1777-1840),  born  in  Virginia,  Chief  Justice  of  Kentucky 
(1807),  twice  a  member  of  Congress  from  Tennessee,  in 
1829  a  Senator  and  an  active  supporter  of  President  Jack- 
son, and  (1838)  appointed  Attorney  General  of  the  United 
States.' 


^The   International   Cyclopedia,   Volume   VII,   page   126. 


CHAPTER  V 

HENRY    EWING,    SON    OF    EMIGRANT    WILLIAM    EWING : 
HIS   CAREER  AND  DESCENDANTS 

*nENRY   EWING 

eldest  son  of  the  emigrant  William  Ewing,  was  the  first 
Justice  of  the  Peace  for  Rockingham  County,  Virginia,  and 
Clerk  of  the  Court,  1782-1792;  removed  in  1792  to  Hardin 
County,  Kentucky,  where  he  died.  He  married  Jane  Rodg- 
ers :    Issue : 

(i)  John  Ewing  (Henry,  William),  born  1761,  died 
August  14,  1796;  moved  with  his  father  to  Hardin  County, 
Kentucky,  and  died  there;  married  Sallie  Davis  (father 
Walter  Davis),  who  died  in  Christian  County,  Kentucky, 
1805.    Issue : 

1ST.  Henry  Clayton  Ewing  (John,  Henry,  William), 
born  December  7,  1788;  died  March  17,  1855.  Owing  to 
his  father's  death  when  he  v/as  still  a  child,  he  became  the 
ward  of  his  great  uncle,  Andrew  Ewing  (William),  of 
Nashville,  Tennessee,  and  later  became  Deputy  Clerk  under 
Nathan  Ewing.  He  married  Elizabeth  Hill  (daughter  of 
Dan  Hill),  January  12,  1815.     Issue: 

(a)  John  Hill  Ewing,  born  March  10,  1816;  died  No- 
vember 21,  1885;  married  (first)  Susan  H.  Goodwin,  No- 
vember 8,  1838.    Issue: 

(aa)  Henry  Clayton  Ewing,  born  November  18, 
1839;  died  January  8,  1862;  married  Elizabeth  May, 
i860,  and  had  a  daughter,  Henry. 

(bb)  William  Goodwin,  born  January  17,  1842; 
died  July  30,  1882;  married  (first)  Sallie  House,  1866. 
Issue:  Mary  Hamilton,  born  March  14,  1868.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Martha  Hillman,  October  25,  1870.  Is- 
sue: Henry  Clayton,  born  August  11,  1871 ;  Susan, 
born  October  7,  1872,  married  Henry  M.  Harris,  De- 
cember 6,  1893  ;  John  Hill,  born  March  24,  1874;  Grace, 
born  October  8,  1875;  George  Hillman,  born  August 
28,  1877;  Andrewena,  born  January  13,  1881. 

(cc)  Alice,  born  January  8,  1844;  died  March  26, 
1881 ;  married  William  Donelson,  December  17,  1870. 
Issue:    Mary  Elizabeth,  born  May  6,  1872;  John,  born 

•To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Wm.   H.   Fox   (q.  v.)  we   are  indebted  for  information  of 
the  births,  marriages  and  deaths  of  the  descendants  of  the  emigrant   William. 
(20) 


The  Ewixg  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  21 

February  12,  1874;  Alice  Ewin,  born  October  18,  1876, 
died  January  7,  1892;  W'ena,  born  May  12,  1880. 

(dd)  Susan  Goodwin,  born  February  22,  1846; 
married  Frank  O.  Anderson,  September  19,  1867. 
Issue:  Garland  E.,  born  July  21,  1868;  Mary  E.,  born 
September  15,  1870;  Susan  M.,  born  February  5,  1873; 
Alfred  E.,  born  February  10,  1883. 

(ee)     Andrewena.  born  June  4,  1848;  married  Wil- 
liam Perkins  May,  November  25,  1875.     Issue:    Eliza- 
beth, born  October  9,  1878;  Annie,  born  December  5, 
1881  ;  Susan  Ewin,  born  January  17,  1886. 
He  (John  Hill  Ewing)  married  (second)  Catherine  (De 
Graffinreid)  Perkins,  a  widow,  February,  1855.     Issue: 

(aa)     James  W,  P.,  born  November  12,  1855. 

(bb)      Catherine  D.,  born  October  25,  1857. 

(cc)     Lucinda,  born  September  15,  1859. 

(dd)  John  Overton,  born  August  5,  1881 ;  married 
Adair  Humphries,  November,  1887.  Issue:  Lucy 
Herndon,  born  June  16,  1889;  James,  born  June  22, 
1891. 

(ee)  Elizabeth,  born  December  24,  1863;  married 
Abram  Martin  Baldwin,  June  7,  1887.  Issue:  Abram 
Martin,  born  April  14,  1888;  Katherine,  born  July  23, 
1890. 

(ff)      Benjamin  Russ  De  Graffinreid,  born  August 

7,  1866. 

(b)     Lucinda  G.,  born  December  27,  1817;  died  March 

2^,  1883,  in  Clarksville,  Tennessee;  married  May  23,  1837, 

James  H.  Wright,  born  in  Virginia,  November  16,   1812; 

died  March  17,  1856.    Issue: 

(aa)  Susan  Rowena  Wright,  born  February  20, 
1839;  died  April  21,  1879;  married  Edmond  Turnley, 
April  2/,  1858.  Issue:  James  Harvey,  born  March  9, 
1859;  married  Sallie  Jetton  Carney,  November  18, 
1885.  Edwin  Perry,  born  April  24,  1862;  married 
Willie  Golladay,  October  22,  1884;  children,  Nettie, 
born  January  29,  1888,  and  Robert  Moseley,  born  Janu- 
ary 9,  1890.  Lucinda  Garner,  born  February  10,  1869; 
died  July,  1869.  William  Wright,  born  October,  1870; 
died  June,  1879.     Nettie,  born  September  8,  1872. 

(bb)  Elizabeth  Hill,  born  August  29,  1842,  died 
March  23,  1863,  unmarried. 

(cc)  Henry  Clayton,  born  June  30,  1844;  died  June 
19,  1845. 


22  The  Ewiisq  Genealogy  with  Cogxate  Lraxches 

(dd)  Florence,  born  April  8,  1846;  married  Mar- 
cellus  Turnley,  January  23,  1867.  Issue:  Emma,  born 
December  11,  1867;  married  Dr.  Pike  Adair,  June  2.'j, 
1888.  Alpha  Wright,  born  August  2}^,  1869;  married 
Joseph  W.  Alford,  September  9,  1891 ;  child,  Florence, 
born  January  3,  1893.  Susan  W.,  born  December  i, 
1870;  married  Thomas  J.  Flood,  May  6,  1891.  Lu- 
cinda  Ewin,  born  December  2},,  1874;  died  January  11, 
1875.  Mary  Hester,  born  November  14,  1879.  Mattie 
Ewin,  born  June  2^,  1883;  died  September  5,  1884. 

(ee)     Jennetta  Pendleton,  born  December  16,  1848. 

(ff)  William  Hickman  Ewin,  born  August  5,  1851 ; 
married  September,  1878,  Martha  A.  Neblett,  who  died 
at  Clarksville,  Tennessee,  September  9,  1894.  Issue: 
William  H.,  born  and  died  1879;  Elizabeth  Hill,  born 
September,  1880;  Anna  Neblett,  born  1882;  John  Ewin, 
born  about  1884. 

{gg)  Martha  Ewing,  born  Januar}'  29,  1853;  died 
April  23,  1891 ;  married  April  7,  1887,  R.  M.  Scott,  who 
died  at  Cordile,  Georgia,  May  26,  1890.  Issue:  Flor- 
ence E.,  born  February  13,  1888,  and  John  Wright, 
born  December  17,  1889. 
]  (hh)     James  Harvey,  born  February  25,  1855;  died 

July  31,  1855. 

(c)  Sallie  Davis,  born  June  12,  1820;  died  1865,  un- 
married. 

(d)  Martha  Hill,  born  April  4,  1822;  died  May,  1852, 
unmarried. 

(e)  William  Hickman,  born  December  3,  1824;  died 
December  5,  1867,  unmarried. 

(f)  Jennetta  Hall,  born  July  i,  1827;  died  June  9,  1850; 
married  John  T.  Pendleton,  October  21,  1846.  Children: 
Henry  Ewin,  born  1847,  died  unmarried,  and  James  K., 
born  and  died  1850. 

(g)  Watts  Davis,  born  March  29,  1830;  died  October 
29,  1855;  married  Georgianna  Sebree,  October  25,  1853. 
Child:  Martha  S.,  born  1854,  died  1855. 

(h)  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  April  2,  1833;  married  Wil- 
liam P.  Cannon,  February  21,  1856.  Children:  William 
Perkins,  born  January  31,  1858;  John  Hill,  born  September 
6,  1859;  Thomas  F.  P.,  born  September  24,  1861  ;  Elizabeth 
Ewin,  born  August  i,  1863,  married  O.  Boxby,  December 
6,  1894. 

(i)     Theresa  Green,  born  September  17,  1836;  married 


The  Ewixo  Gexealoqt  with  Cogxate  Branches  23 

Samuel  F.  Perkins,  June  29,  1858;  lived  in  Franklin,  Ten- 
nessee.   Issue : 

(aa)  Leah  Letitia  Perkins,  born  April  30,  1859; 
married  Leland  Jordan,  January  15,  1879.  Children: 
Theresa  A.,  born  November  10,  1879;  Samuel  Per- 
kins, born  April  23,  1881 ;  Mary,  bom  December  28, 
1883;  Leland,  born  March  14,  1885;  Letitia  Perkins, 
born  April  21,  1887;  Montfort,  born  March  11,  1889; 
Elizabeth  Ev.in,  born  September  10,  1891,  and  Martha, 
born  December  6,  1893. 

(bb)  Elizabeth  Ewin,  born  May  11,  i860;  married 
John  H.  Henderson,  May  21,  1879.  Children:  Sam- 
uel, born  July  24,  1880;  died  July  21,  1881.  Thomas 
Feam  Perkins,  born  May  9,  1882;  Theresa  Ewin,  born 
April  26,  18S5;  John  Hughes,  born  June  2-j,  1888,  and 
Sally,  born  October  25,  1892. 

(cc)  Thomas  Feam,  born  March  12,  1863;  ^^^'^ 
January  29,  1872,  unmarried. 

(dd)     Samuel  F.  and  Theresa,  twins,  born  Febru- 
ary 3,  1865;  former  died  January,  1866,  unmarried,  and 
latter  married  Frank  Y.  McGavock,  October  15,  1884. 
Children :     Theresa  Perkins,  born  May  28,  1885,  and 
Louise  Grundy,  born  June  3,  1890. 
2ND.    Watts  Davis  Ewing  (John,  Henry,  William),  born 
January,  1791 ;  engaged  in  mercantile  business  where  Tren- 
ton, Kentucky,  now  stands;  in   1818  moved  to  Nashville, 
Tennessee,  and  settled  on  a  farm  near  what  is  now  Fayette- 
ville,  where  he  remained  until  his  death.  Married  his  cousin, 
Margaret  Donley.    Issue : 

(a)  William  Ewing,  dates  of  birth  and  marriage  not 
ascertained,  nor  name  of  wife.  Children,  three  sons : 
Charles,  Robert  and  William. 

(b)  Charles  died  when  a  lad  about  eleven  years  old. 

(c)  Ephemia  died  at  about  twenty-two  years  of  age. 

(d)  John,  said  to  have  married  and  had  nine  daughters. 

(e)  Henry,  dates  and  name  of  wife  not  known;  had  two 
sons,  Edwin  and  Henry. 


24  Tjie  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Bkanches 

(f)  Watts. 

(g)  James. 

3RD.  Jennetta  Ewing  (John,  Henry,  William),  married 
Edwin  Hall,  of  Virginia ;  moved  with  him  to  Kentucky. 
Issue :  One  child. 

4TH.  John  Ewing  (John,  Henry,  \\'illiani)  died  in  in- 
fancy. 

(2)  Henry  (Henry,  William),  no  record  of  him. 

(3)  Andrew  (Henry,  William)  is  said  to  have  had  sons 
who  lived  in  Southwestern  Missouri. 

(4)  Sally  (Henry,  William),  married  John  Davis.  Chil- 
dren :  Margaret,  Martha,  Ewin,  James,  John  and  Allen ; 
two  last  moved  to  Franklin  County,  Missouri,  in  1820. 


CHAPTER  VI 

ANDREW  EWING,  SON   OF  THE  EMIGRANT   WILLIAM    EWING: 

HIS    CAREER   AND   DESCENDANTS 

ANDREW   EWING 

son  of  the  emigrant  William,  was  born  March  15,  1740;  died 
April  30,  1813.  He  married  Susannah,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Shannon,  of  Virginia,  and  moved  from  Rockingham  County, 
Virginia,  to  Tennessee  in  1780,  and  settled  at  the  present 
site  of  Nashville. 

He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  City  of  Nashville,  was 
one  of  the  Commissioners  in  laying  off  the  town,  and  in 
1783  became  Clerk  of  the  Court  of  Davidson  County,  which 
then  embraced  a  large  portion  of  the  State,  and  held  this 
position  until  his  death. 

Citizens  of  Nashville  erected  a  granite  shaft,  in  the  Court 
House  square,  in  his  memoiy  and  that  of  his  associates.  It 
may  be  noted  too  that  his  wife  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  church  of  Nashville,  now  the  largest 
church  in  that  city.     Issue : 

(i)  Andrew  Ewing  (Andrew,  William),  born  July  i, 
1768;  died  May  i,  1830;  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Hickman.    No  issue. 

(2)  Margaret  Ewing  (Andrew,  William),  born  June  4, 
1769;  died  June  i,  1862;  married  Andrew  Castleman.  Issue, 
as  far  as  known :  Robert,  and  Cinthia,  married  Professor 
Richard  Beard,  D.  D.,  of  Princeton,  New  Jersey. 

(3)  William  Ewing  (Andrew,  William),  born  Novem- 
ber 29,  1771 ;  died  November  24,  1845;  niarried  Margaret 
Love,  May  26,  1795.     Issue: 

1ST.  Andrew  B.  Ewing  (William,  Andrew,  William), 
born  July  27,  1796;  died  May  15,  1880.  He  was  born  on 
the  "Granny  White"  Pike,  near  Nashville,  Tennessee;  was 
a  physician ;  tv/ice  President  of  the  Medical  Society  of 
Tennessee,  and  several  times  President  of  the  County  So- 
ciety. He  married  Eliza  McGavock,  daughter  of  Captain 
Hugh  McGavock,  at  Max  Meadows,  Virginia,  May  i,  1821. 
Issue : 

(a)  William  Ewing  (Andrcv»'  B.,  William,  Andrew, 
William),  born  May  2,  1823;  married  (first)  Lucinda  Mc- 
Gavock, of  Max  Meadows,  Virginia,  and  (second)  Lida 
Withers.  He  served  both  in  the  Mexican  War  and  Confed- 
erate Army,  in  the  latter  in  command  of  a  company  of 
cavalry  at  the  time  of  his  death.     He  was  Representative  of 


26  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Beanches 

Williamson  County,  Tennessee,  in  1861.    Issue  by  Lucinda : 
(aa)     Andrew  B.  Ewing  (William,  Andrew  B.,  Wil- 
liam, Andrew,  William),  born  July  25,  1851 ;  married 
February     8,     1882,     Blanche,     daughter    of     Edwin 
Crutcher. 

(bb)  Joseph  William,  born  February  17,  1853;  died 
January  16,  1889,  unmarried. 

(cc)  Lillie  Eliza,  born  March  24,  1855;  married 
William  J.  Brown,  October  25,  1882.  Children :  Susie 
Elizabeth,  born  August  26,  1887;  William  Johnston, 
born  January  27,  1890;  Milton  Ewing,  born  May  10, 

1895- 
Issue  by  Lida : 

(aa)  William  Milton  (William,  Andrew  B.,  Wil- 
liam, Andrew,  William),  born  December  9,  1862;  mar- 
ried Maggie,  daughter  of  D.  F.  Mills,  May  18,  1886. 
Children:  Milton  M.,  born  January  21,  1887;  died 
March,  1887.  William  D.,  born  May,  1889.  Marga- 
rette,  born  1891. 

(b)  Hugh  McGavock  Ewing  (Andrew  B.,  William,  An- 
drew, William),  born  December  11,  1824. 

(c)  Randal  Milton  Ewing  (Andrew  B.,  William,  An- 
drew, William),  born  June  i,  1829;  resided  in  Franklin, 
Tennessee;  was  appointed  Attorney  General  of  the  Ninth 
Judicial  Circuit  of  Tennessee  when  the  State  seceded  in 
1861,  and  again  held  the  same  ofifice  in  1864-1865;  was 
elected  Vice  President  of  the  Tennessee  Bar  Association, 
1884-1885 ;  married  Mary  Ellen,  daughter  of  James  Rodgers 
McGavock,  September  13,  1853.    Issue: 

(aa)  Carrie  Eliza  Ewing  (Randal  Milton,  Andrew 
B.,  William,  Andrew,  William),  born  September  17, 
1854. 

(bb)  Charles  Andrew,  born  September  25,  1857; 
married  Sarah  Elizabeth  Owen,  November  22,  1887. 
Children:  Pleasant  Andrew,  born  February  23,  1889; 
John  Owen,  born  December  26,  1890,  and  Ellen,  born 
June  20,  1893. 

(cc)  Francis  McGavock,  born  December  26,  1861 ; 
married  Eliza  McClung,  daughter  of  John  Marshall, 
January  15,  1892.  Children:  Randal,  born  and  died 
December  26,  1892,  and  John  Marshall,  born  September 
3,  1894. 

(dd)     William  F.,  born  February  20,  1864. 


The  Ewino  Genevlogy  with  Cognate  Branches  27 

(d)  Andrew  J.  Ewing  (Andrew  B.,  William,  Andrew, 
William),  born  May  17,  1835;  died  about  1890,  unmarried. 

(e)  Susan  Mary  Ewing  (Andrew  B.,  William,  Andrew, 
William),  born  January  2,  1841. 

(f)  Ann  Eliza  Ewing  (Andrew  B.,  William,  Andrew, 
William),  born  August  i,  1843. 

2ND.  Joseph  Love  Ewing  (William,  Andrew,  William), 
born  May  31,  1798;  died  1864;  married  Sarah  E.,  daughter 
of  David  McGavock,  November  11,  1824. 

3RD.  Felix  Grundy  Ewing  (William,  Andrew,  William), 
born  September  2,  1800;  married  Sarah  McRorry,  Septem- 
ber 2,  1824. 

4TH.  Susannah  Shannon  Ewing  (William,  Andrew,  Wil- 
liam), born  July  4,  1804;  married  Major  William  Harts- 
field,  April  4,  1838. 

5TH.  Milton  P.  Ewing  (William,  Andrew,  William), 
born  April  4,  1806;  died  September  28,  1837,  unmarried. 

6th.  Eliza  Milford  Ewing  (William,  Andrew,  William), 
born  December  24,  1807;  married  James  G.  Dunaway,  Jan- 
uary 3,  1828. 

7TH.  William  L.  Ewing  (William,  Andrew,  William), 
bom  November  i,  1890;  married  Nancy  R.  Thompson,  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1832. 

8th.  Jesse  H.  Ewing  (William,  Andrew,  William),  born 
September  10,  181 1;  married  Martha  Jane,  daughter  of 
Matthew  Johnson,  of  Williamson  County,  Tennessee,  Janu- 
ary 7,  1841. 

9TH.  Cyrus  G.  Ewing  (William,  Andrew,  William), 
born  September  26,  1813;  died  November  27,  1835,  un- 
married. 

lOTH.  Margaret  A.  Ewing  (William,  Andrew,  William), 
born  December  11,  1815;  married  (first)  Dr.  Andrew  J. 
White,  December  7,  1835;  married  (second)  Dr.  Robert 
Glass;  married  (third)  Mr.  D.  Cameron. 

iiTH.  Mary  Jane  Ewing  (William,  Andrew,  William), 
born  October  5,  1817;  married  Pleasant  A.  Smith,  February 
16,  1837.     Issue: 

(a)  William  C.  Smith  (Mary  Jane,  William,  Andrew, 
William). 

(b)  Pleasant  A.,  married  Martha  Thompson  Hamilton, 
October  18,  1866.  Children:  William  Ewing  Smith,  born 
January  15,  1868;  Mary  Hamilton,  born  August  15,  1873; 
Nannie  F.,  born  August  30,  1878,  and  Nellie  French,  born 
February  23,  1882. 


28  The  Ewino  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

(4)  Amelia  Ewing  (Andrew,  William),  born  January 
7,  1774;  died  November,  1836;  married  in  Nashville,  Ten- 
nessee, 1795,  Moses  Speer,  who  died  July  11,  1840,  in  Hous- 
ton County,  Texas,  said  to  be  a  descendant  of  an  Irish 
baron,  Henry  Speer,  residing  in  County  Londonderry.  She 
removed  to  Texas  in  1833.    Issue: 

1ST.  Andrew  Ewing  Speer  (Amelia,  Andrew,  William), 
born  March  27,  1796;  died  1837;  married  Elizabeth  Wil- 
liams.   Issue: 

(a)  John  Ewing  .Speer,  born  1826. 

(b)  Susan,  born  1831 ;  married  A.  P.  Scruggs.  Child: 
Rosa  Vulnor,  born  1868. 

2ND.  Moses  G.  Speer  (Amelia,  Andrew,  William),  born 
January  9,  1798;  died  1814,  unmarried. 

3RD.  Jesse  Lee  Speer  (Amelia,  Andrew,  William),  born 
December  4,  1799;  died  1890. 

4TH.  James  Green  Hill  Speer  (Amelia,  Andrew,  Wil- 
liam), born  July  28,  1801 ;  died  1832;  married  Eliza  O'Brien. 
Issue : 

(a)  .Sarah  Amelia  Speer,  married  Mr.  Jackson. 

(b)  John  Moses,  married,  but  date  of  marriage  and 
name  of  wife  not  obtained.    Child :  William. 

(c)  Mary  Ann,  born  March,  1832;  married  Mr.  Bartlett. 
5TH.     Thomas  Hickman  Speer   (Amelia,  Andrew,  Wil- 
liam), born  June  6,   1803;  died  1838. 

6th.  Nathan  Ewing  Speer  (Amelia,  Andrew,  William), 
born  May  i,  1805;  died  1870;  married  1830,  Eliza  Jane, 
daughter  of  Erancis  P.  Blair,  of  District  of  Columbia.  Chil- 
dren:    George;  "Bettie,"  died  1872;  married  Dr.  Fisher. 

7TH.  Edward  Young  Speer  (Amelia,  Andrew,  Wil- 
liam), born  April  11,  1807;  died  1881. 

8th.  Mary  W.  Speer  (Amelia,  Andrew,  William),  born 
January  9,  1809;  died  1849;  married  Rev.  G.  Garrett,  No- 
vember 15,  1832.    Issue: 

(a)  Mary  Susan  Garrett,  born  April  11,  1834;  married 
Rev.  James  A.  Peebles,  June  11,  1855;  lived  in  Arkansas. 
Issue: 

(aa)  Seth  G.  Peebles,  born  August  11,  1856;  mar- 
ried Tennie  Jackson,  1883. 

(bb)  Maria  D.,  born  July  16,  1858;  married  Eugene 
Skillern,  October  16,  1878.  Children:  Eugene  Ander- 
son, born  November  21,  1879;  Mary  Gertrude,  born 
February  20,  1882;  Valeria,  born  June  20,  1885;  Julia 


The  Ewixg  Genealogy  with  Cogxate  Bbaxciies  29 

Garrett,  born  July  i6,  1887;  Lottie,  born  September  21, 
1889;  William  Albert,  born  October  28,  1891  ;  Minnie 
P.,  born  March  2,  1894. 

(cc)  Julia  A.,  born  June  14,  i860;  married  C.  W. 
Garner,  January  12,  1881.  Children:  Myrtle  A.,  born 
January  13,  1882;  died  November,  1882.  Walter,  born 
and  died  November,  1882.  Laura  Irene,  born  Novem- 
ber, 1883.  William,  born  July,  1886;  died  December, 
1886. 

(dd)     John  William,  born  November  25,  1862. 

(ee)  James  Albert,  born  March  18,  1864;  died 
July,  1864. 

(ff)  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  March  19,  1866;  mar- 
ried John  A.  McClure,  October  i,  1889.  Children: 
Florence,  born  July  17,  1890.  Grace,  born  March  10, 
1892;  died  March  11,  1893.  John  Peebles,  born  De- 
cember 31,  1893. 

(gg)  Alberta  G.,  born  August  14,  1873;  died  Sep- 
tember, 1873. 

(b)  Ann  Amelia,  born  March  13,  1837;  married  Wil- 
liam Wallace,  September  11,  1863. 

(c)  Helen  J.,  born  January  23,  1841 ;  married  John  A. 
Billups,  December  24,  1867.    No  issue. 

(d)  William  Andrew,  born  August  3,  1843;  <^ied  July 
28,  1861,  unmarried. 

(e)  Emma  F.,  born  November  24,  1846;  married  (first) 
Goodwyn  My  rick,  December  31,  1878,  and  (second)  F.  M. 
Whitehead,  November,  1890.    No  issue. 

9TH.  John  Fletcher  Speer  (Amelia,  Andrew,  William), 
born  December  10,  181 1 ;  died  1846. 

lOTH.  Samuel  W.  Speer  (Amelia,  Andrew,  William), 
born  August  15,  1813;  was  a  distinguished  divine  in  Ken- 
tucky. He  married  (first)  Abigail  Wilmath  in  1837,  ^"^ 
(second)  Antoinette,  daughter  of  John  Bliss,  of  Witherham, 
Massachusetts,  August  20,  1850.  Child  by  Abigail,  a  daugh- 
ter, Abigail.  Children  by  Antoinette :  John  Bliss,  died  in 
infancy ;  Charles  Ewing,  died  in  childhood ;  Harriet,  died 
aged  9  years;  Samuel  Marshall,  died  aged  19  years. 

iiTH.  Susan  S.  Speer  (Amelia,  Andrew,  William),  bom 
April  12,  1815;  married  William  McPherson,  September  21, 
1837.  She  went  to  Talladega  County,  Alabama,  1835,  and 
organized  the  first  school  for  girls  in  the  county,  at  that 
time  of  the  Creek  Indian  Nation.    Issue  : 


30  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cog.nate  Branches 

(a)  Harriett  Janetta  McPherson,  born  October  25, 
1841 ;  married  H.  J.  Hamilton,  a  farmer,  October  29,  i860, 
in  Fayetteville,  Alabama.    Issue  : 

(aa)  Daisy  Ezelle  Hamilton,  born  December  29, 
1863;  married  Rufus  P.  Loony,  October  25,  1884.  Chil- 
dren: Rufus  Linton  Loony,  born  August  10,  1885; 
Annie  Louise,  born  February  2,  1887;  Hamilton,  born 
January  25,  1889. 

(bb)     Susan  Stella,  born  November  14,  1866. 

(cc)  Hudson,  born  November  14,  1868;  married 
Ruby  Avereth,  December  7,  1893.  Child :  Erma,  bom 
October  14,  1894. 

(dd)     Ida  Lucila,  born  September  2;^,  1873. 

(ee)     Jannetta,  born  May  5,  1876. 

(ff )      Jessie  Ewing,  born  July  16,  1878. 

(gg)     Margaret  Williamson,  born  March  16,  1881. 

(hh)     Robert  Irvin,  born  March  30,  1885. 

(b)  William  G.,  born  February  9,  1844;  married  Miss 
Wallis,  February  9,  1873,  near  Fayetteville,  Alabama.  Child: 
Wallis  D.,  born  October  22,  1873. 

(c)  Robert  J.,  born  January  4,  1846;  died  March  i, 
1884;  married  Annabella  Love,  March  13,  1880,  near  York, 
Nebraska.    Children : 

(aa)     Jesse  William,  bom  December  13,  1880. 
(bb)     Bessie,  born  December  25,  1882. 

(d)  Margaret  Roxana,  born  August  28,  1848;  married 
James  Mims,  a  merchant,  January  15,  1868,  at  Fayetteville, 
Alabama,  and  lived  at  Oxford,  Alabama.    Issue  : 

(aa)  Eleanor,  born  March  31,  1870;  married  Kin- 
alder  W.  Hawly,  December  28,  1892. 

(bb)     Charles  McPherson,  born  July  29,  1873, 

(cc)     James  William,  born  June  20,  1876. 

(dd)      Susan  Elizabeth,  born  February  18,  1879. 

(ee)     Mary  Lou,  born  September,  1883. 

(ff)      Samuel  McPherson,  born  October  12,  1891. 

(e)  Charles  C,  born  February  7,  1851 ;  became  a  bank- 
er; married  Louise  Lehnhofif,  November  25,  1884,  near  Lin- 
coln, Nebraska. 

(f)  Samuel  Speer,  born  June  25,  1855;  was  a  farmer; 
married  Anna  K.  Kelly,  August  25,  1881,  at  Wetumpka, 
Alabama. 

I2TH.  Margaret  C.  Speer  (Amelia,  Andrew,  William), 
born  February  12,  1817;  died  1877;  married  Thomas  Lew- 
ellen,  1837. 


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(5)  Nathan  Ewing  (Andrew,  William),  born  February 
II,  1776;  died  at  Nashville,  Tennessee,  May  i,  1830;  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  Daniel  Hill,  who  died  at  Nashville 
in  1855;  moved  to  Tennessee  in  1780  and  was  Clerk  of  the 
County  Court  of  Davidson  County  from  1813  until  his 
death.    Issue : 

1ST.  John  Overton  Ewing  (Nathan,  Andrew,  William), 
born  1800;  died  1826;  married  Lemira,  daughter  of  William 
Douglass  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  November  6,  1823.  He 
was  a  physician,  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Nash- 
ville with  Dr.  A.  G.  Ewing  as  partner,  under  the  firm  name, 
J.  O.  &  A.  G.  Ewing;  he  had  established  a  high  character 
in  his  profession  before  his  death.  His  widow  married 
Major  John  Boyd  and  died  June  12,  1838.    Issue  : 

(a)  Hill  Ewing,  who  died  in  infancy. 

(b)  John  Overton,  born  August  2^,  1826;  died  October 
8,  1866;  married  (first)  January,  1843,  Margaret  (daughter 
of  Alex  Campbell,  who  died  October  22,  1848;  married  (sec- 
ond) Sarah  E.,  daughter  of  John  M.  Bass,  of  Nashville, 
Tennessee,  December  14,  1852.  Issue  by  Margaret:  Alex. 
Overton  Ewing,  born  May  22,  1848;  died  October  5,  1849. 
Issue  by  Sarah : 

(aa)     John  Bass  Ewing,  born  January  28,  1855. 
(bb)     Boyd,  born  August  8,  1856 ;  died  April  3,  1897. 
(cc)     Felix  Grundy,  born  August  8,  1858;  married 
Jane,  daughter  of  George  Washington,  of  Robertson 
County,  Tennessee,  October  28,  1891. 

(dd)  Henry  Overton,  born  May  i,  i860;  died 
March  16,  1905;  married  Minnie,  daughter  of  H.  S. 
Chamberlain  of  Chattanooga,  Tennessee,  January  20, 
1892.  Children:  Margaret  Louise,  born  March  5, 
1893 ;  Rosalind,  born  July  28,  1894;  Winifred,  born  De- 
cember 21,  1898. 

(ee)     Malvene  Bass,  born  March  24,  1865;  married 

Dr.  William  H.  Fox,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  December 

31,  1889. 

2ND.     Henry  Ewing  (Nathan,  Andrew,  William),  bom 

1802;  died  1846-1847;  married  Susan,  daughter  of  Samuel 

Grundy,  and  sister  of  Hon.  Felix  Grundy.     He  was  Clerk 

of  the   Court  of  Davidson  County,   Tennessee,   and  later 

moved  to  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.     Issue: 

(a)     Lemira  Ewing,  married  William  S.  Eakin,  a  mer- 
chant of  Nashville.     Child:     Hugh. 
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32  The  Ewixg  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

(b)  Sarah,  married  Thomas  Eaken,  a  banker  of  New- 
York.  Children  :  Henry,  died  unmarried ;  Susan,  died  un- 
married; Jeannie;  Thomas. 

3RD.  Albert  G.  Ewing  (Nathan,  Andrew,  William),  born 
1804;  died  1872;  married  (first)  Jane  C,  daughter  of  Alex. 
Campbell,  and  married  (second)  Mary  Jane  Marsilliott.  He 
was  a  Campbellite  minister  and  moved  from  Tennessee  to 
Illinois  (Eureka  and  Bloomington).    Issue  by  Jane  C. : 

(a)  Margaret  Ewing,  married  Joseph  H.  Pendleton,  a 
lawyer,  October  31,  1848,  at  Bethany,  Virginia,  and  lived  in 
Wheeling,  West  Virginia.  Issue:  Joseph  Minor;  John 
Overton;  Henry  Harwood;  Ida  Ewing,  married  F.  P.  Jep- 
son,  having  a  child,  Evelyn  Ewing;  Virginia  Campbell,  mar- 
ried A.  N.  Wilson,  child  John  Overton  Pendleton ;  Margaret 
Josephine,  married  G.  S.  Hughes,  child  John  Overton  Pen- 
dleton ;  Elizabeth  Winston. 

(b)  Henry,  died  at  birth. 

(c)  Sarah,  married  J.  W.  Bush  at  Bethany,  Virginia, 
who  was  a  planter  and  lived  at  Huntsville,  Texas.  Children : 
Fanny  Overton,  married  Mr.  Lee;  Kate  Ewing,  married  Mr. 
Heflin;  Rawlings;  Sarah,  married  Mr,  London;  Ewing; 
Leonard,  Mattie,  and  Etta. 

Issue  of  Albert  G.  Ewing  by  Mary  Jane : 

(a)  Rowena  Ewing,  married  James  B.  Stevenson  in 
Eureka,  Illinois,  and  lived  at  Coulton,  California.  Child : 
Anna,  married  Mr.  Bullis. 

(b)  Jane,  married  Mr.  Davidson,  Eureka,  Illinois. 
Child :  Annie. 

(c)  Alberta,  died  1872,  unmarried. 

4TH.  Orville  Ewing  (Nathan,  Andrew,  William),  born 
February  6,  1806;  died  October  10,  1876;  married  (first) 
Milbrey  H.,  daughter  of  Josiah  Williams,  in  Nashville,  Ten- 
nessee, January  26,  1832,  and  married  (second)  Susan  C. 
Avery,  a  widow,  in  Groton,  Connecticut,  October  17,  1866. 
He  was  a  banker,  president  of  the  Planters  Bank  of  Nash- 
ville, the  precusor  of  the  American  National  Bank  of  Nash- 
ville; lived  in  Nashville;  died  at  Gainesville,  Florida.  No 
issue  by  Susan  C.     Issue  by  Milbrey  H. : 

(a)  Margaretta  Williams  Ewing,  born  February  21, 
1833;  died  October,  1849,  unmarried. 

(b)  Edwin  H.,  born  January  19,  1835;  died  July  26, 
1873,  in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  where  he  was  a  merchant; 
married  Emma,  daughter  of  Alex.  Eakin,  June  10,  1856,  in 
Shelbyville,  Tennessee.    Issue : 


The  Ewing  Genealocv  with  Coonate  Branches  33 

(aa)  Alexander  Ewing,  born  February  26,  1857; 
died  August  4,  1858. 

(bb)  Milbrey,  born  February  29,  1859;  married 
Edwin  H.  Fall,  October  10,  1878.  Children:  Thomas 
Malone,  born  September  16,  1881 ;  Margaret  Eakin, 
born  July  9,  1887,  and  Edward  Hicks,  born  November 
29,  1889. 

(cc)  James,  born  May  25,  1861  ;  died  December 
31,  1873. 

(dd)  Andrew,  born  March  13,  1866;  died  Septem- 
ber 13,  1891,  unmarried. 

(ee)     Edwin  H.,  born  March  29,  1868. 

(ff)  Emma,  born  November  4,  1872;  married  Wal- 
ter Keith,  January  11,  1893.  Child:  Milbrey,  born  Oc- 
tober 22,  1893. 

(c)  Albert  G.,  born  October  30,  1836;  was  a  lumber 
merchant;  lived  in  Nashville,  Tennessee;  married  Harriet 
or  Henrietta,  daughter  of  Mark  Cockrell,  November  8.  1865, 
in  Nashville.    Issue: 

(aa)  Rowena  Ewing,  born  November  11,  1866; 
married  Risley  P.  Lawrence,  October  8,  1884.  Chil- 
dren: Risley  P.,  born  September  9,  1885;  died  August 
22,  1886;  Albert  Ewing,  born  September  7,  1887; 
Thompson,  born  March  11,  1889;  Benjamin  Pontz, 
born  November  24,  1890;  Rowena  E.,  born  February 
3-  1893. 

(bb)     Albert  G.,  born  January  27,  1868. 

(cc)  Susan,  born  May  31,  1869;  died  March  13, 
1870. 

(dd)     Mark  C,  born  December  31,  1870. 

(ee)     Orville,  born  May  5,  1872. 

(ff)      Mary,  born  September  15,  1873. 

(gg)  Edgar,  born  March  7,  1875;  died  August 
24,  1875. 

(hh)      Milbrey,  born  July  6,  1876. 

(ii)        Harrietta,  born  March  16,  1878. 

(jj)  Robertson  C,  born  April  i,  1880;  died  April 
13,  1880. 

(kk)      Margaret,  born  August  28,  1884. 

(d)  Rowena  W.,  born  July  7.  1838;  married  October  2, 

1865,  John  C.  Thompson,  a  distinguished  lawyer  of  Nash- 
ville,  Tennessee.      Children :     Ewing,   born   November  24, 

1866.  Morgan,  born  October  26,  1868;  died  May  3,  1893, 


34  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

unmarried.    Albert  E.,  born  January  28,  1871 ;  died  Novem- 
ber 30,  1874. 

(e)  Henry,  born  December  23,  1840;  died  June  13, 
1873;  was  a  a  journalist;  lived  in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and 
St.  Louis,  Missouri;  married  Emma,  daughter  of  Edwin  T. 
Burr,  in  Batesville,  Arkansas.    Issue : 

(aa)  Katheryne  Burr,  born  November  9,  1865; 
married  (first)  Alfred  Rhodas,  child  Leigh  E.,  born 
August  T.'j,  1886;  married  (second)  George  T.  Pum- 
pelly. 

(bb)  Henry,  born  May  21,  1867;  married  June  21, 
1888,  Laila,  daughter  of  Ira  Rowe.  Children :  Laila, 
born  April  7,  1889;  Katheryne,  born  January  9,  1891 ; 
Milbrey,  born  October  11,  1892. 

(cc)     Edwina  B.,  born  August  2-],  1872. 

(f)  Orville,  born  February  5,  1843;  hardware  and  lum- 
ber merchant  in  Nashville,  Tennessee;  married  July  25, 
1865,  Irene,  daughter  of  W.  E.  Watkins.    Issue: 

(aa)  Jane  Watkins,  born  December  5,  1866;  mar- 
ried James  L.  Morrow,  February  28,  1889.  Children: 
Irene,  born  May  19,  1890;  Elizabeth,  born  December 
22,  1891 ;  James  L.,  born  November  14,  1893. 

(bb)  Margaret,  born  October  10,  1868;  died  No- 
vember 16,  1876. 

(cc)  Orville,  born  October  25,  1870;  died  Septem- 
ber 5,  1871. 

(dd)  Samuel  Watkins,  born  June  28,  1872;  died 
October  30,  1876. 

(ee)     Evans,  born  October  23,  1875. 

(ff )      Orville,  born  September  14,  1881. 

(g)  Josiah  Williams,  born  July  21,  1848;  married  Jen- 
nie, daughter  of  Pryor  Smith,  of  Rome,  Georgia.  Child : 
Annie,  born  April,  1873. 

5TH.  Edwin  Hickman  Ewing  (Nathan,  Andrew,  Wil- 
liam), born  December  2,  1809;  was  a  lawyer  of  Murfrees- 
boro,  Tennessee;  member  of  United  States  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives (1845-1847)  ;  married  Rebecca  P.,  daughter  of 
Josiah  Williams,  December  20,  1832.  He  (Edwin  H. 
Ewing),  was  one  of  the  great  lawyers  of  Tennessee;  served 
by  special  appointment  of  Judge  of  Tennessee  Supreme 
Court,  and  was  instrumental  in  establishing  Peabody  Col- 
lege in  Nashville.     Issue: 

(a)     Josiah  W.  Ewing,  born  August  11,  1834;  died  Aug- 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  35 

ust  4,   1890;  married  Ada  B.  Hord,  November  21,   1855. 
Issue : 

(aa)  Thomas,  born  September  4,  1856;  married 
Kate  Tutt,  of  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey.    No  children. 

(bb)  Orville,  born  1864;  married  Evie  Orman. 
Child :    Orman. 

(cc)     Emmet,  born  August  21,  1867. 
(dd)     Josephine,  born  January  20,  1871 ;  died  Sep- 
tember, 1895;  married  Walter  D.  Fox,  May  17,  1892. 

(b)  Jane  C,  born  December  30,  1836;  died  February  14, 
1871  ;  married  (first)  December  3,  1856,  Emmet  Eakin,  and 
(second)  August  17,  1868,  Dr.  James  Wendell.  Issue  by 
Emmet  Eakin : 

(aa)  Rowena,  born  December  3,  1857;  married 
April  3,  1879,  Dr.  G.  W.  Overall.  Children:  George, 
born  November  10,  1880;  died  November  11,  1880,  and 
Ada,  born  October  12,  1882;  died  October  13,  1882. 

(bb)  Arthur,  born  January  6,  i860;  died  1882,  un- 
married. 

(cc)  Florence,  born  April  23,  1862;  married  James 
H.  Reed,  May  24,  1881.  Children:  Ethel,  born  June 
30,  1882;  Lovie,  born  April  12,  1884;  \\'il!iam,  born 
September  20.  1885;  Emmet,  bom  April  10,  1888; 
James,  born  November  29,  1891  ;  Ellis  Baskette,  born 
October  9,  1894. 

(dd)  Sallie,  born  January  10,  1864;  married  George 
House,  May  9,  1889.  Child:  Florence,  born  February 
14,  1890. 

Issue  by  James  W^endell,  M.  D. :  Jane  Caroline,  died 
aged  10  years. 

(c)  Orville,  born  August  8,  1840;  died  December  31, 
1862,  unmarried. 

(d)  Florence,  born  May  13,  1842;  died  June  13,  1896; 
married  (first)  October  11,  1866,  Andrew  J.  Fletcher,  who 
died  April,  1871,  and  married  (second),  May  20,  1873, 
Daniel  Perkins.  Children  by  Andrew :  Edwin  Ewing,  born 
August  20,  1867;  died  December  9,  1889,  unmarried.  Mary 
Dean,  born  January  11,  1870;  died  June  3,  1877.  Children 
by  Daniel:  Thomas  Moon,  born  April  30,  1876;  died  June 
15,  1876.  Rebecca  W.,  born  February  6,  1878.  Sarah,  bom 
March  18,  1880. 

6th.  Andrew  Ewing  (Nathan,  Andrew,  William),  born 
June  15,  1815;  died  June  13,  1864,  in  Atlanta,  Georgia;  was 
a  lawyer,  a  member  of  the  United  States  House  Representa- 


36  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

tives  (1849-1851),  and  Colonel  in  the  Confederate  Army; 
married  (first)  Andrew  Hynes'  daughter  Margaret,  born 
February  i,  1819,  who  died  January  7,  1840;  married  (sec- 
ond) Rowena,  daughter  of  Josia  Williams.  He  (Andrew 
Ewing),  was  a  forceful  and  eloquent  speaker;  a  man  of 
great  public  spirit ;  a  Democrat  and  party  leader ;  opposed 
Secession  but  went  with  his  people,  and  used  his  fortune  to 
build  a  Gun  Factory  in  Nashville  just  before  its  fall;  he 
served  as  Judge  of  Gen.  Bragg's  Military  Court.  Issue  by 
Margaret : 

(a)  Hynes  Ewing,  married  Hattie  Hiter,  and  v^as  killed 
in  Kentucky.    No  children  . 

Issue  by  Rowena : 

(a)  Rebecca  Ewing,  born  June  30,  1842;  married  in 
Nashville,  Tennessee,  December  25,  1865,  Henry  Watterson, 
the  famous  editor  of  the  Louisville  Courier-Journal.  Issue: 

(aa)  Ewing,  born  July  4,  in  or  after  1866;  married 
Jean  Black. 

(bb)  Milbrey,  born  August  4,  1871 ;  married  Wil- 
liam Alonzo  Miller. 

(cc)     Henry,  born  February  3,  1877. 

(dd)    Harvey,  born  February  12,  1879. 

(ee)     Ethel,  born  June  24,  1880. 

(b)  John,  born  February  10,  1844;  died  unmarried. 

(c)  Milbrey,  born  February  2."],  1846;  married  Septem- 
ber 18,  1866,  in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  Spencer  Eakin,  who 
was  connected  with  the  St.  Louis,  Nashville  &  Chattanooga 
Railroad  Company.    Issue : 

(aa)  Rebecca,  born  December  24,  1868;  died  Jan- 
uary 31,  1870. 

(bb)  Stella,  born  July  12,  1874;  married  February 
6,  1895,  Angus  Allmond,  who  lived  in  Louisville,  Ken- 
tucky. 

(cc)      Spencer,  born  July  12.  1874. 

(dd)    Margaret,  born  March  24,  1876. 

(ee)     Rowena,  born  February  13,  1878. 

(ff)  Andrew,  born  November  9,  1879;  died  April 
1880. 

(gg)     Milbrey,  born  July  9,  1881 ;  died  August,  1882. 

(hh)     Deery,  born  November  13,  1883. 

(d)  Nathan,  born  July  12,  1847;  niarried  Margaret  Per- 
kins.   Issue  :    Elizabeth,  Robert  and  Andrew. 

(e)  Robert,  a  lawyer,  was  born  August  10,  1849;  mar- 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  37 

ried  Hattie,  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  A.  Hoyt,  March  28, 
1876.  He  lives  in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  where  he  was  mar- 
ried. Was  Clerk  and  Master  of  the  Chancery  Court  (1876- 
1882),  and  in  October  1883,  became  Chairman  of  the  Board 
of  Public  Works  and  Affairs;  was  later  Mayor  of  Nash- 
ville.   Issue : 

(aa)     Mary,  born  January  3,  1877. 

(bb)  Alice,  born  September  15,  1878;  died  Sep- 
tember 22,  1879. 

(cc)  Robert,  born  March  15,  1880;  died  July  26, 
1894. 

(dd)     T.  Hoyt,  born  November  14,  1881. 

(ee)  Andrew,  born  January  19,  1883;  died  October 
2,  1883. 

(ff)      William  Cooper,  born  April  29,  1884. 

(gg)     Harold,  born  July  15,  1885. 

(hh)     Lily  Hoyt,  born  August  10,  1886. 

(ii)       Louise,  born  November  30,  1888. 

(jj)       Norris,  born  January  25,  1890. 

(kk)     Esmond,  born  August  4,  1891. 

(11)  Hattie  H.,  born  January  23,  1893;  died  June 
22,  1893. 

(mm)   Rebecca,  born  November  15,  1894. 

(f)  Thomas,  born  March,  1852;  died  unmarried, 

(g)  Maggie,  born  July  15,  1854;  died  unmarried, 
(h)     William,  born  October,  1856;  died  unmarried. 

(6)     Elizabeth  Ewing  (Andrew,  William),  born  March 
14,  17795  married  Thomas  Shannon. 


CHAPTER  VII 

JOHN    EWING,   SON   OF  THE  EMIGRANT   WILLIAM    EWING  : 

HIS  MARRIAGE  AND  DESCENDANTS 

JOHN  EWING 

son  of  the  emigrant  William,  was  born  1741,  died  May  17, 
1822.  He  married  Phebe  Davidson  and  remained  in  Rock- 
ingham County,  Virginia,  with  his  father  on  the  parental 
homestead,  which  later  was  owned  by  his  grandson,  William 
D.  Ewing.    Issue : 

(i)  Ann  Ewing  (John,  William),  born  July  9,  1770; 
married  Thomas  Shanklin. 

(2)  James  Ewing  (John,  William),  born  April  4,  1773; 
married  Grace  Shanklin;  moved  to  Kentucky,  afterwards  to 
Missouri.  Issue :  Joseph,  Elizabeth,  Cyrus,  Jesse,  Ruth, 
Sophronia  and  William  G. 

(3)  Mary  Ewing  (John,  William),  born  October  8, 
1775;  married  John  Pruce. 

(4)  William  Ewing  (John,  William),  born  August  15, 
1780;  died  January  14,  1857;  married  Elizabeth  Bryan.  He 
lived  and  died  on  or  near  the  old  homestead  in  Rockingham 
County,  Virginia.     Issue : 

1ST.  Jesse  Ewing  (William,  John,  William),  born  1808; 
died  1870;  married  Lavinia  Bryan  about  1844. 

2ND.  Nancy  B.  Ewing  (William,  John,  William),  born 
1810;  died  April  21,  1889,  unmarried. 

3RD.  George  W.  Ewing  (William,  John,  William),  born 
1813;  died  October  10,  1848,  unmarried. 

4TH.  Henrietta  Ewing  (William,  John,  William),  born 
1816;  died  January,  1886;  married  Robert  Sittington. 

5TH.  Phebe  A.  Ewing  (William,  John,  William),  born 
1819;  died  May  11,  1892,  unmarried. 

6th.  Benjamin  B.  Ewing  (William,  John,  William), 
born  1821  ;  died  October  8,  1862,  unmarried. 

7TH.  Rebecca  D.  Ewing  (William,  John,  William),  born 
1823;  died  February  2,  1889,  unmarried. 

8th.  Daniel  B.  Ewing  (William,  John,  William),  bom 
1825 ;  died  February  8,  1885 ;  married  Frances  Barbour, 
October,  1852.  Issue:  Bryan,  died  in  infancy;  William 
Nicholson,  Lucy  Barbour,  Carrie  Summerville,  Elizabeth 
Bryan,  Maybelle  and  Jeannie  Pendleton. 

9TH.  Mary  E.  Ewing  (William,  John,  William),  born 
May  2^,  1827. 

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lOTH.  Elizabeth  A.  Evving  (William,  John,  William), 
born  1828;  married  John  T.  Brown.    No  issue. 

iiTH.  William  D.  Ewing  (William,  John,  William),  born 
1829;  married  October,  1859,  Margaret  Sellers,  and  lived  at 
the  old  homestead  in  Rockingham  County,  Virginia,  near 
his  sisters  Elizabeth  and  Mary  E.     No  issue. 

(5)  Hannah  Ewing  (John,  William),  born  December  8, 
1782;  married  James  Mallory. 

(6)  Elizabeth  Ewing  (John,  William),  born  November 
7,  1784;  married  Colonel  Conner. 

(7)  John  D.  Ewing  (John,  William),  born  April  2, 
1788;  married  Drusilla  DeL.  Tate;  he  was  a  minister,  many 
years  in  charge  of  the  church  at  Falling  .Spring,  Rocking- 
ham County,  Virginia,  where  he  died  and  was  buried. 
Issue : 

1ST.  Philander  Ewing  (John  D.,  John,  William),  died 
unmarried. 

2ND.  Phebe  Jane  Ewing  (John  D.,  John,  William),  mar- 
ried Daniel  Morgan. 

3RD.  William  P.  Ewing  (John  D.,  John,  William),  mar- 
ried Anne  Sturgess. 

4TH.  Anne  Eliza  Ewing  (John  D.,  John,  William),  mar- 
ried Samuel  Jetter. 

(8)  Jesse  Ewing  (John,  William),  born  July  2,  1791 ; 
died  1808,  unmarried. 


CHAPTER  VIII 

CHARLES  EWING,  THE  EMIGRANT:  HIS  BIRTH,   CAREER, 

MARRIAGE   AND    CHILDREN 

CHARLES  EWING 

the  emigrant,  was  quite  prominent  in  the  early  history  of 
Virginia,  as  indicated  by  the  pubHc  records/ 

Among  the  references  to  him  is  an  ancient  record  of  Bed- 
ford County,  showing  that  on  March  24,  1755,  he  with  other 
"Vestrymen,"  took  "usual  oaths  to  his  Majesty's  person  and 
government,"  conforming  to  the  "doctrine  and  discipline  of 
the  Church  of  England."' 

He  died  in  the  year  1770,  leaving  a  will  that  v/as  admitted 
to  probate  July  24,  1770,  in  Bedford  County,  Virginia. 

Surviving  him  were  his  wife,  Martha,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Caleb  Baker,  and  seven  sons  and  two  daughters.  The  sons 
were  Charles,  William,  Robert,  Samuel,  George,  David  and 
Caleb.  The  daughters  were  Mary  and  Martha.  The  widow 
Martha  was  a  sister  of  Mary  Baker,  the  wife  of  the  emigrant 
Robert  Ewing ;  in  other  words,  the  brothers  married  sisters. 

The  son  William  left  a  will,  admitted  to  probate  on  April 
23,  1810,  in  which  he  refers  to  his  wife  Anna,  to  his  three 
brothers,  Charles,  George  and  David,  and  to  Polly  and  Betsy 
as  heirs  of  his  brother  Caleb,  and  to  Mitchell  Ewing,  "his 
brother's  son,"  necessarily  the  son  of  the  brother  Robert, 
or  the  brother  Samuel. 

This  Mitchell  Ewing,  grandson  of  the  emigrant  Charles 
Ewing,  married  on  December  2y,  1797,  Phebe  Cox,  and 
later,  on  March  25,  1805,  married  Nancy  Beard,  daughter 
of  Samuel  Beard. 

William  E.  Ewing,  son  of  William  Ewing  and  grandson 
of  Mitchell  Ewing  just  mentioned,  is  now  living  near  Frank- 
lin, Nebraska,  on  a  farm,  enjoying  that  simple  pastoral  life 
which  has  been  associated  in  all  ages  with  the  best  and  pur- 
est in  aspiration  and  deed. 

He,  William  E.  Ewing,  was  born  May  i,  1853 ;  was  gradu- 

'Early   Records  of  Bedford   County,  Virginia. 
^History  of  Bedford   County,  Virginia,   1753-1907,   page  10. 
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ated  in  the  Class  of  1876  from  what  is  now  the  Virginia 
Polytechnic  Institute,  at  Blacksburg.  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 18,  1878,  Eliza  Cofer,  of  Bedford  County,  Virginia,  and 
from  the  union  were  born  Lydia  Buford,  died  unmarried; 
Lewis,  now  residing  at  Santa  Anna,  California ;  Loula,  mar- 
ried Calvin  Ball,  and  resides  at  Guide  Rock,  Nebraska; 
Ella,  married  Crenshaw  Sprout,  residence  Yuma,  Colorado ; 
Edward  M.,  resides  at  Cogswell,  North  Dakota;  Charles  G. 
and  Alice  Lee,  both  of  whom  reside  at  Franklin,  Nebraska. 
The  descendants  of  the  emigrant  Charles  Ewing  are 
numerous,  but  are  widely  scattered,  and  owing  to  this  fact 
and  loss  of  records  from  the  ravages  of  war  and  time,  we 
have  not  succeeded  in  gathering  authentic  information  of 
many  of  them,  though  many  have  had  successful  and  dis- 
tinguished careers. 


CHAPTER  IX 

ROBERT  EWING,  THE  EMIGRANT:  HIS  BIRTH,  CAREER, 
MARRIAGE  AND  CHILDREN 

ROBERT  EWING  I 

was  a  man  of  distinguished  ability,  evidently  a  leader  in  his 
community,  of  determined  character  and  resolute  purpose  in 
the  execution  of  his  plans  and  designs. 

He  was  born  in  County  Londonderry,  Ireland,  probably  at 
or  near  Coleraine,  about  171 5-1725,  and  finally  settled,  as 
we  have  seen,  with  his  brother  Charles,  in  what  is  now  Bed- 
ford County,  Virginia.  Some  of  his  residence  in  Virginia 
is  understood  to  have  been  in  what  was  at  the  time  Augusta 
County. 

He  qualified  on  June  22,  1754,  under  commission  from  the 
King  (George  II),  as  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  County 
Court  for  Bedford  County,  which  was  a  court  of  general 
jurisdiction,  with  records  and  a  clerk,  having  chancery 
powers  besides  other  jurisdiction,  and  in  that  capacity  he 
served  for  a  number  of  years,  the  records  showing  that  he 
was  serving  on  July  22,  1754;  on  May  24,  1756,  and  on  June 
25,  1771-' 

He  was  appointed  and  presided  as  one  of  the  Judges  of 
the  "Court  of  Oyer  and  Terminer"  to  try  for  murder  one 
Hampton,  who  was  convicted  and  hanged.'' 

He  was  a  member  of  Captain  Thomas  Buford's  volunteer 
company,  raised  in  Bedford  County,  which  constituted  a 
part  of  the  army  under  General  Andrew  Lewis  (Lord  Dun- 
more's  War)  in  the  battle  with  the  Indians  at  Point  Pleas- 
ant, October  to,  1774.' 

It  appears  that  he  made  a  payment  to  the  County  in  1756 
for  provisions  for  the  Militia.' 

On  August  27,  1770,  he  received  a  grant  of  194  acres 
of  land.' 

In  religion  he  was  a  Presbyterian,  an  elder  in  that  church ; 
and  he  was  the  first  signer  (probably  the  author)  of  a  re- 
markable petition,  full  of  point  and  vigor,  from  Peaks  of 
Otter  Presbyterian  Church,  Bedford  County,  May,  1774,  to 
the  General  Assembly  of  Virginia,  asking  that  the  elders 

Wide,  Records  of  Bedford  County,  Virginia. 
^History  of  Bedford   County   (1753-1907),  pages  14-15. 
'Virginia  Colonial  Militia,  page  86. 
*Boogher's  Gleanings  of  Virginia  History,  page  63. 
''Record   Book  39,  page  98. 

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thereof  be  enabled  to  take  and  hold  land  and  slaves  (O 
temporal  0  mores!)  to  the  use  of  the  minister  under  proper 
regulations.  This  petition  was  signed,  among  others,  by 
Charles  Ewing,  Robert  Evving,  Jr.,  William  Boyd,  John 
Ewing,  Adam  Linn,  William  Ewing,  Joseph  Linn,  Adam 
Linn,  Abraham  Ewin  (sic),  James  Boyd  and  Caleb  Ewing.' 

The  records  of  Bedford  County  disclose  a  deed,  dated 
July  28,  1783,  recorded  August  25,  1783,  of  which  Robert 
was  the  first  signer,  and  from  its  vigorous  style,  probably 
the  author,  conveying  certain  slaves  in  trust  to  the  elders  of 
the  Peaks  of  Otter  Presbyterian  Church,  the  profits  of  said 
slaves  or  their  issue  to  be  used  for  supporting  a  regular 
minister,  and  for  such  other  church  purposes  as  the  elders 
and  a  majority  of  the  congregation  might  agree  upon.  This 
deed  was  signed,  among  others,  by  William  Ewing  and 
John  Ewing. 

As  indicative  of  Robert's  public  spirit,  we  note  that  on 
March  24,  1783,  he  wrote  to  the  Governor  of  Virginia,  from 
Bedford  County,  informing  him  that  the  Sherifif  had  refused 
to  give  security  for  collection  of  taxes,  and  intimating  very 
strongly  that  under  the  situation  the  people  of  Bedford 
County,  though  it  was  one  of  the  first  inland  counties  of  the 
State,  were  not  inclined  to  pay  as  demanded.' 

Both  Robert  and  Charles  lived  in  Bedford  County  until 
their  deaths,  Robert's  death  occurring  in  May  or  June,  1787, 
his  will  being  dated  March  2,  1786,  with  a  codicil  dated 
May  14,  1787,  and  having  been  filed  for  probate  in  the  Bed- 
ford County  Court,  June  25,  1787,  as  shown  by  the  county 
records.  The  will  disposed  of  considerable  land,  both  in 
Virginia  and  Kentucky,  the  ownership  in  Kentucky  being 
explained  by  the  fact  that  at  least  much  of  Kentucky  was 
carved  out  of  Augusta  County,  Virginia. 

He,  the  emigrant  Robert  Ewing,  married  about  1747- 1750, 
Mary  Baker,  the  children  of  which  marriage  (order  of  birth 
unknown)  were,  as  follows: 

1.  Sidney  Ann,  died  prior  to  the  death  of  her  father; 
married  Adam  Linn. 

2.  John,  married  Martha   (surname  unknown.) 

3.  Martha  (Betty)  who  married  Capt.  John  Mills  of 
Botetourt  County,  Va. 

4.  Robert  (q.  v.). 

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44  The  Ewino  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

5.  Baker,  probably  one  of  the  eldest  sons. 

6.  Young,  also  probably  an  elder  son. 

7.  Urban,  died  in  Cooper  County,  Mo.,  about  1828;  mar- 
ried Mary  (Polly)  Ewing,  daughter  of  George  Ewing. 

8.  Reuben,  born  1766,  died  1823;  married  Frances 
Whitsett. 

9.  Polly  (Patty),  married  John  Ewing,  son  of  George 
Ewing. 

10.  Chatham,  born  in  Bedford  County,  Va.,  1770;  died 
in  Lafayette    County,  Mo. ;  married  Elizabeth  Campbell. 

11.  Jane,  married  Peter  Kelley,  a  soldier  of  the  Revolu- 
tion. 

12.  Finis,  the  youngest  child,  born  in  Bedford  County, 
Va.,  July  10,  1773;  died  at  Lexington,  Mo.,  July  4,  1841 ; 
married  Jan.  15,  1793,  Margaret  Davidson. 

MARY  BAKER   EWING 

the  wife  of  the  emigrant,  Robert  Ewing,  w'as,  as  stated,  the 
sister  of  Martha  who  was  the  wife  of  the  brother,  Charles 
Ewing. 

She  was  probably  born  in  Virginia,  in  what  became  Prince 
Edward  County,  about  the  year  1730;  her  father  was  Rev. 
Caleb  Baker,  a  prominent  Presbyterian  clergyman  of  that 
county,  and  evidently  a  man  of  strong  will  and  sterling 
qualities  of  character. 

Of  her  personal  history,  we  have  ascertained  nothing 
further,  but  surely  the  mother  of  a  galaxy  of  sons  like  hers, 
who  are  accredited  by  history  so  uniformly  with  worthy 
achievements  of  high  order,  must  have  been  richly  endowed 
with  those  attributes  which  make  "a  perfect  woman,  nobly 
planned." 


CHAPTER  X. 

SIDNEY,    ANN,    MARTHA    (bETTY),    POLLY,    AND   JANE   EWING, 

DAUGHTERS  OF  ROBERT  AND  MARY  BAKER  EWING, 

AND    THEIR    DESCENDANTS 

*SIDNEY  ANN   EWING 

daughter  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker)  Ewing,  was  born 
in  Bedford  County,  Va. ;  died  prior  to  the  death  of  her 
father ;  married  Adam  Linn,    Issue  : 

(i)     Nancy,  married  Abraham  Boyd,  1796.     Issue: 

1ST.  John,  born  Nashville,  Tenn.,  about  1798;  married 
Betsy  McLean;  he  removed  with  his  parents  while  young,  to 
Trigg  County,  Ky.,  and  later  to  Texas,  where  he  was  several 
times  elected  to  the  Congress  of  the  Republic  of  Texas ; 
he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Trinity  University,  Tehua- 
cana,  Texas.  Issue :  Martha,  Lucas,  Horace  and  Putnam. 

2ND.  Linn,  born  Nashville,  Tenn.,  Nov.  28,  1800,  died 
Paducah,  Ky.,  Dec.  16,  1859;  married  (i)  Alice  Bennett, 
and  (2)  Mrs.  Dixon;  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Trigg 
County.,  Ky.,  and  later,  in  1826,  to  Calloway  County,  Ky., 
and  was  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature  from  that  county 
1827-30;  he  returned  to  Trigg  County,  and  was  elected  to 
State  Legislature  from  that  county  183 1-2,  defeated  for 
Congress  in  1832,  elected  to  Congress  in  1834,  defeated  for 
Congress  in  1836,  elected  to  Congress  in  1838,  where  he 
served  until  1854,  being  Speaker  of  the  House,  1850-4;  he 
was  Lieutenant  Governor  of  Kentucky  in  1859.  Issue  with 
Alice  Bennett,  (a)  Ward,  an  attorney-at-law,  married  Miss 
Ware,  of  Paducah,  Ky. ;  (b)  Butler,  never  married;  (c) 
Linn,  an  attorney-at-law  at  Murray,  Ky.,  and  (d)  Felix, 
who  was  a  physician.  Issue  with  Mrs.  Dixon,  a  daughter, 
Rhea,  deceased. 

3RD.  Martha,  married  1816,  George  Haines  Gordon,  and 
removed  to  Missouri  in  1832.  Issue:  (a)  Nancy  Haines, 
born  1817,  married  Lexington,  Mo.,  1838,  Thomas  Shelby. 
Issue,  Adelaide,  married  1859,  Evan  Young;  George; 
Alice,  married  Travis  Buford ;  Martha,  married  Samuel 
Huston,  child  Nancy,  married  Edward  Lee  of  Kansas  City, 
Mo.;  Thomas  married  (i)  Ella  Chinn,  and  (2)  Ella  Wash- 
ington ;  Nancy,  married    Mr.    Thompson ;     Linn,     married 

*We    acknowledge    indebtedness    to    F.    M.    Cockrell,    Esq.,    of    Louisville, 
Kentucky,   for   some   of  the   genealogy   of   Robert    Ewing's    descendants   not   in 
the   direct   line   of   the   authors;   using  the   same   in   some   instances   in   reliance 
on   its   correctness   without   opportunity    to  verify. 
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46  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

Lillian  Kelly,  and  Forrest,  married  Belle  McFadden. 

(b)  John  Boyd,  unmarried. 

(c)  William,  born  1821,  a  physician,  member  of  Mis- 
souri Legislature  from  Lafayette  County,  i860,  and  sur- 
geon 1st  Missouri  Cavalry,  C.  S.  A.;  married  Margaret 
Green,  daughter  Col.  Lewis  Green,  war  of  1812.  Issue: 
Martha,  married  James  Harrelson;  Mary,  married  M. 
Graham;  Katherine;  Lucy;  Florence,  married  Frank 
Barnes ;  Jane,  married  Robert  Lankf ord ;  Nancy ;  Leila,  and 
two  daughters  who  died  young. 

(d)  Emevine,  married  James  Ruffner,  of  West  Virginia. 
Issue :  Henry,  Charles,  James,  and  Florence,  married  J.  F. 
Merryman,  attorney-at-law,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

(e)  Mary,  married  1849,  Hiram  F.  Walker.  Issue: 
Martha,  married  Henry  Winslow;  Samuel,  married  Mary 
Laws;  Lucy,  married  W.  R.  Doran;  Gordon,  married 
Beatrice  Clinton ;  Walter ;  Mary  Ellen,  married  John  Ban- 
nister; Addie,  married  Joseph  Williams,  and  Paris,  all  liv- 
ing at  San  Saba,  Texas,  at  last  account. 

(f)  Linn,  married  1846,  Catherine  Fulkerson  (sister  of 
Reuben  B.  Fulkerson).  Issue:  George,  married  Molly 
Shelby;  Fred,  married  Margaret  Evans;  Benjamin,  married 
Catherine  Chanselor;  John,  married  Edna  Reaves;  Martha, 
married  Travis  Buford;  Sally;  Ella,  married  Edward 
White,  and  Katherine,  married  John  Bishop  of  St.  Louis, 
Mo. 

(g)  George,  married  Victoria  Bennett.  Issue,  Alma, 
married  C.  C.  Marshall. 

(h)  Lucy,  married  Milton  Ewing.  Issue,  see  Milton 
Ewing,  infra. 

4TH.  Alfred,  married  Lucy  Harrison,  Issue :  John,  an 
attorney-at-law,  married  Sarah  Cook;  George,  a  physician, 
unmarried ;  Abraham,  an  attorney-at-law,  married  Miss 
O'Bannon ;  Agnes,  married  Mr.  Grimes,  of  Paducah,  Ky. ; 
Adeline,  and  Martha,  married  Mr.  Small. 

5TH.  Rufus,  married  Eliza  Bennett.  Issue:  Rufus, 
married  Adelia  Noel. 

MARTHA    ( BETTY)    EWING 

daughter  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker)  Ewing,  was  born 
in  Bedford  County,  Va.,  and  married  John  Mills,  of  Bote- 
tourt County,  Va.,  a  captain  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 
Issue : 

(i)     Robert  (Bartus),  mentioned  in  the  will  of  Robert 


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Ewing  I ;  he  removed  to  South  Kentucky,  and  thence  to 
Louisiana. 

(2)  Mary,  born  1780,  married  George  Scroggins,  of 
Virginia,  in  1809;  removed  from  Virginia  to  Kentucky,  and 
thence  to  Missouri  in  1838.  Issue:  Martha,  born  1810, 
died  1891,  SaHne  County,  Mo.,  married  James  Brown  1826; 
Sally,  married  1834,  Samuel  Durley;  George,  married  Mary 
Rollins;  Charles  M.,  married  1848,  Mary  Rice;  Mildred, 
married  1837,  Milton  Thompson,  and  she  died  1851; 
Thomas,  married  1850,  Rebecca  Curry. 

(3)  John  S.,  married  Agnes  Hayden. 

(4)  Caleb,  lived  near  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

(5)  Ulysses,  also  lived  near  Little  Rock,  Arkansas. 

(6)  Archie,  nothing  known  of  him. 

(7)  Nancy,  married  John  B.  S.  Ewing,  who  died  dur- 
ing Civil  War;  and  she  died  in  Texas,  March,  1852.  Issue: 
Polly;  Martha,  married  Mr.  Paschal;  Butler,  reared  partial- 
ly by  Wm.  Lee  Davidson  Ewing  (son  of  Finis  Ewing)  ; 
John,  married  Miss  Davis;  Charles;  Sally,  married  Mr. 
Carter;  George,  and  Ephraim. 

(8)  Charles  Ewing,  born  1796,  died  Jan.  1859,  married 
Elizabeth  Allen  Bell,  near  Lexington,  Ky.,  1822;  she  was 
born  1795,  died  in  Cass  County,  Mo.,  March  1881  ;  was  a 
daughter  of  John  Bell  and  Jane  Mills,  sister  of  Capt.  John 
Mills.    Issue : 

1ST.     Elizabeth  Jane,  born  1824,  died  1900,  unmarried. 

2ND.  John  Henderson  Bell,  born  1826,  died  1844,  un- 
married. 

3RD.  Benjamin  Franklin,  born  1828,  died  1899,  Cass 
County,  Mo.,  married  Elizabeth  Griffith,  of  Georgetown, 
Ky.  Issue:  Charles,  of  Pleasant  Hill,  Mo.,  and  a  daugh- 
ter, who  married  William  Bean,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  grand- 
son of  Rev.  J.  L.  Yantis. 

4TH.  William  Milton,  born  1831,  died  1901,  Warrens- 
burg,  Mo.,  married  1867,  Mary  Eliza  Dunlap,  sister  of 
Louise  G.  (infra),  daughter  of  James  Dunlap  of  Boyle 
County,  Ky.     Issue :    A  daughter,  of  Warrensburg,  Mo. 

5TH.  Charles  Ewing,  born  April,  1834,  died  August  12. 
1905 ;  was  private  on  staff  of  Gen.  Marmaduke,  C.  S.  A,, 
for  three  years;  married  1859,  Louise  G.  Dunlap,  sister  of 
Mary  Eliza  (supra).  Issue:  Benjamin,  married  Margaret 
Robinson;  Virginia  O.,  married  Henry  Engels;  William 
Dunlap,  married  Lula  Routt;  Katherine  M.,  married  L.  M. 
4 


48  The  Ewixg  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

Helmerick;  Emma  B.  married  E.  L.  Brannock,  of  Pleasant 
Hill,  Mo. ;  Henry  Ewing,  married  Nell  Noland.  Issue : 
Florence,  died  in  infancy. 

6th.  Mary  Bell,  married  1856,  Levin  D.  Foree.  Issue: 
Charles  Mills,  unmarried;  Lucy,  married  Barton  Wherrett; 
Lilly,  married  B.  B.  Thornton ;  Edward,  married  Ada  Skill- 
man;  Flora,  married  (i)  Roger  Blackwell,  and  (2)  Walter 
Foree.  There  were  probably  several  other  children,  whose 
rrames  we  have  not  been  able  to  secure. 

/TH.     Joseph  Henry,  born  and  died  in  1841. 

POLLY  (patty)   ewing 

daughter  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker)  Ewing,  was  bom 
in  Bedford  County,  Va. ;  married  John  Ewing  (son  of 
George  Ewing),  born  June  20,  1761,  who  was  a  member  of 
the  first  County  Court,  Campbell  County,  Ky.,  1794-95. 
The  marriage  was  in  Bedford  County.  Issue : 
(i)     Adeline,  born  Sept.  2,  1787. 

(2)  Robert  Mills,  born  March  20,  1789. 

(3)  Baker,  born  Nov.  5,  1795. 

(4)  Polly  Baker,  born  Sept.  3,  1797. 

(5)  Urban  Epinetus,  born  Feb.  25,  1799,  died  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  was  a  practicing  physician ;  married  ( i )  April 
10,  1823,  Sallie  Lloyd  Robert  Moore,  born  Feb.  24,  1807, 
died  Aug.  4,  1833,  only  child  of  Robert  K.  Moore  and  Mrs. 
Katherine  Allen  Price.    Issue  : 

1ST.  Robert  Allen  Karney  Moore,  born  June  14,  1824, 
died  May  27,  1825. 

2ND.  Katherine  Allen  Karney  Moore,  born  October  13, 
1825,  married  Robert  Barclay  Hopkins,  of  Anne  Arundel 
County,  Maryland.  Issue:  (a)  Urban  Ewing,  born  1844, 
died  1874,  unmarried;  (b)  Robert  Barclay;  (c)  Gerard, 
died  in  infancy;  (d)  Kate  Butler,  married  Hite  Thompson, 
of  Louisville,  Ky.  Issue :  Katherine  Hopkins,  married 
Wm.  Beard,  Jr.,  of  Chicago,  111.,  children,  Katherine  and 
Elizabeth ;  Sarah  Elizabeth,  married  William  Hall  Wilson, 
of  Louisville,  Ky.,  no  children;  (c)  Thomas  Ewing;  (f) 
Sallie  Ewing,  born  1859,  ^^^^  1879,  unmarried;  (g)  Mar- 
shall Ewing,  lived  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  married  Mary  Cook, 
several  children. 

3RD.  Robert  Allen  Karney  Moore  (2),  born  May  12, 
1827,  died  Jan.  8,  1849. 

4TH.     Mary  Lloyd  Moore,  bora  Feb.  15,  1829;  married 


The  Ewinq  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Beanchej-'  49 

(first)  Thomas  Eaches,  and  (second)  Henry  Hartman. 
Issue  by  first  marriage  (none  by  second)  :  Ewing,  lived  at 
Richmond,  Va. ;  married  Somer  Hayes;  children:  Katherine 
Ewing  and  Elizabeth  Travers ;  Katherine  Ewing,  married 
Benjamin  H.  Ridgeley ;  no  children. 

5TH.  Sallie  Moore  Ellen  Adelia,  born  Jan.  19,  183 1 ; 
died  Louisville,  Ky.,  May  20,  1907;  married  (first)  Aug.  5, 
1852,  Dr.  Nathaniel  Burwell  Marshall  (Chief  Justice  John, 
James  Keith),  born  Mar.  16,  1824;  died  May  22,  1861. 
Issue:  (a)  Sallie  Ewing,  married  June  20,  1888, 
William  J.  Harding;  children:  William  Jarvis,  born  May 
6,  1889;  Marshall  Burwell,  born  Oct.  22,  1890,  and  Ewing 
Lloyd,  born  May  26,  1892.  (b)  Burwell  Keith,  born  Mar. 
9'  1857;  graduated  from  University  of  Virginia;  attorney- 
at-law,  Louisville,  Ky.,  married  June  21,  1883,  Lizzie  Veech. 
Issue:  Richard  Veech,  born  Sept.  12,  1884;  lived  in  St. 
Louis,  Mo.;  married  Ellen  Chauncey;  one  child,  Richard, 
born  Oct.,  191 1 ;  Elizabeth  Veech,  born  Aug.  14,  1886;  Mary 
Louise,  born  April  9,  1888;  Sallie  Ewing,  born  Nov.  9,  1891 ; 
Burwell  Keith,  born  April  22,  1897.  (c)  Ewing,  born 
Sept.  16,  1858,  M.  D.,  Louisville,  Ky. ;  married  Martha 
Sneed;  children:  Alice  Sneed,  Mary  Lloyd,  and  Evan,  (d) 
Claudia  Burwell ;  married  James  Bruce  Morsen ;  several 
children  ;  one  named  Thomas,  (e)  Mary  Lloyd ;  married 
Phillip  T.  Allen;  one  child,  Phillip  T.  She  (Sallie  Moore 
Ellen  Adelia)  married  (second)  Henry  L.  Pope;  one  child, 
Henry  L.,  of  Louisville,  Ky;  unmarried. 

6th.  Urban  John  Donaldson,  born  Jan.  18,  1833;  died 
June,  1834. 

He  (Urban  Epinetus  Ewing)  married  (second)  Jane 
Butler.    Issue : 

1ST.  Mildred;  married  (first)  George  Burgwin  Ander- 
son, who  died  during  the  Civil  War.  Issue :  Ewing  and 
George  Burgwin.  She  (Mildred  Ewing)  married  (second) 
James  Manderson  Carlisle.  (Had  a  son,  Calderson,  by  a 
first  marriage).  Issue:  Mildred,  married  Augustus  Burg- 
win (her  cousin);  home,  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  Pierce  Butler, 
died  young. 

2ND.  Nellie;  married  John  Montgomery  Wright.  Issue: 
Jean ;  married  Frank  Swope ;  no  children ;  Margaret  Fors- 
ter;  married  Mr.  Waller,  of  New  York  City;  one  of  their 
children  named  George  Wright. 


50  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  BRANCHEb 

3RD.  Jane  Butler;  married  George  Keats  Speed.  Issue: 
Jennie  Ewing;  married  Calvin  Morgan  Duke,  son  of  Gen. 
Basil  Duke,  of  Louisville,  Ky. ;  children :  Basil  and  Ewing; 
Emma  Keats;  married  Henry  A.  Sampson  of  Richmond, 
Va. ;  child,  Emma  Keats;  Phillip;  married  Lucy  Mason; 
other  children :  Ewing,  Nellie  Ewing,  Joshua  Fry,  and 
George  Keats. 

(6)  Nancy  M.,  born  Sept.  7,  1801. 

(7)  Winifred  L.,  born  Oct.  11,  1804. 

(8)  George  W. 

(9)  Ellen  (Nellie). 

JANE   EWING 

daughter  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker)  Ewing,  was  bom  in 
Bedford  County,  Virginia;  married  Peter  Kelly,  a  soldier 
of  the  Revolution. 

Their  daughter,  Sarah  (1784- 1807),  married  Zadock 
Adair.  Child:  Weyman,  a  distinguished  Presbyterian 
minister,  married  Delthia  Staunton  de  Berry,  daughter  of 
Lemuel  de  Berry  and  his  wife,  Delthia  Ellis.    Issue : 

(i)  Mary  Adair,  married  John  Magruder  Wynne,  of 
Huntsville,  Texas,  and  later  Captain  George  W.  Farris. 
Issue  by  John  Magruder  Wynne :  Gustave  Adair,  married 
Samuella  Gibbs.     Children : 

(a)  Mae  Samuella,  married  Ike  Barton  McFarland,  of 
Houston,  Texas.  She  is  a  woman  of  scholarly  attainments 
and  superior  ability,  and  is  President  of  Chautauqua  Circle, 
Houston,  and  has  for  several  years  been  prominently  and 
officially  connected  with  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  is  now  (1919)  State  Secretary  and  one  of 
two  candidates  for  State  Regent  (Texas). 

(b)  Jane  Sophronia,  married  Dr.  Joseph  Revis  Lay; 
one  child,  Magruder  Wynne. 

(c)  Mamie  Staunton,  married  William  Cox;  one  child, 
William  Adair. 

(d)  Florence  Magruder,  married  Charles  G.  Barrett. 

(e)  Ara  Adair,  married  Tyler  Haswell;  one  child,  Ara 
Wynne. 

(2)  William  de  Berry,  married  Lulu  Nors worthy;  two 
daughters,  Katie  and  Louise. 

(3)  Priscilla,  married  Cowper  Shelton  Taliaferro. 
Issue :  Weyman,  married  Katie  White ;  two  daughters, 
Katie  and  Louise. 


ERRATA 

P.  50,  I.  30,  et  seq. 

Under  Jane  Ewing,  (b),  (c),  (d)  and  (e)  were  sisters 
and  not  children  of  Gustavus  Adair  Wynne,  whose  children 
were : 

(aa)  Mae  Samuella,  married  Ike  Barton  McFarland; 

(bb)  Gibbs  Adair  married  Lela  May  Brown; 

fee)  Florence  Sanford,  died  in  childhood; 

(dd)  Sabra  Lois  married  William  Reynaud. 

P.  96,  I.  18. 

The  date  of  birth  of  Leila  A^^ills  Ewing  should  be  1855. 

P.  123,  I.  29. 

Williard  should  be  Willard. 

P.  127,  last  line. 

Jaunita  should  be  Juanita. 


CHAPTER  XL 

JOHN,     BAKER,     YOUNG,     URBAN,      REUBEN      AND     CHATHAM 

EWING,  SONS  OF  ROBERT  AND  MARY    (bAKER)    EWING 

AND  THEIR  DESCENDANTS. 

JOHN  EWING 

son  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker)  Ewing,  was  born  in  Bed- 
ford County,  Va. 

He  and  his  wife  Martha,  had  a  son  Robert  (Bartus), 
mentioned  in  the  will  of  the  emigrant  Robert  Ewing,  and  a 
daughter  Sidney,  who  married  in  1793  Micajah  Roland,  and 
another  daughter,  name  not  known,  who  married  a  Mr. 
Frazier. 

John  was  one  of  the  executors  named  in  the  will  of  his 
father,  Robert  Ewing. 

BAKER    EWING 

son  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker)  Ewing,  was  born  in  Bed- 
ford County,  Virginia. 

He  was  a  delegate  to  the  General  Assembly  from  Lincoln 
County,  Ky.,  in  1788;  was  first  Registrar  of  the  Kentucky 
Land  Office  from  June  26,  1792,  to  1798,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Kentucky  Legislature,  from  Franklin  County,  in 
1802.  He  seems  to  have  been,  at  one  period  at  least,  a  mer- 
chant, as  he  was  taxed  for  a  retail  store  in  Franklin  County, 
Ky.,  June,  1797. 

YOUNG   EWING 

son  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker)  Ewing,  was  born  in 
Bedford  County,  Va. 

From  the  records  of  Christian  County,  Kentucky,  it  ap- 
pears that  Young  Ewing  was  thrice  married.  The  name  of 
his  first  wife  is  unknown ;  by  her  he  had  a  daughter,  Polly 
B.,  who  married  Ephraim  B.  Davidson.  His  second  wife 
was  Winefred  Warren,  and  his  third,  Evelina  A.  Jennings.' 
Whether  he  had  other  children  by  these  subsequent  marri- 
ages has  not  been  ascertained. 

He  was  one  of  the  three  original  Magistrates  of  Logan 
County,  Ky.,  in  1792;  was  Justice  of  the  Peace,  Logan 
County  1794;  member  of  the  Kentucky  Legislature  from 
Logan  County,  1795;  one  of  the  first  Trustees  of  Newton 
Academy,  established  by  the  Kentucky  Legislature,  Dec.  22, 

^Deed  Records  of  Christian  County,  Kentucky,  and  Perrin's  History  of 
Christian    County. 

(-.1) 


52  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Bkanches 

1798;  member  of  the  Kentucky  Constitutional  Convention, 
Christian  County,  1799;  an  elder  in  the  Cumberland  Presby- 
tery in  1804;  member  of  the  Kentucky  Legislature,  1800- 
1807;  member  of  Kentucky  State  Senate,  1808-1816,  1819- 
1826;  Presidential  Elector  1824;  and  Colonel  in  the  War  of 
1812. 

Contemplating  the  career  of  this  distinguished  man,  we 
are  led  to  recall  what  is  said  by  a  local  historian,  in  referring 
to  the  Ewings : 

"One  of  the  eras  in  the  history  of  Logan  County,  Ken- 
tucky, is  referred  to  as  'When  the  Ewings  came  and  brought 
the  law  with  them.'" 

URBAN    EWING 

son  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker)  Ewing,  was  born  in  Bed- 
ford County,  Virginia,  about  1828;  moved  to  Logan 
County,  Kentucky,  about  1796,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Kentucky  Legislature  from  Logan  County,  1803,  1807,  1809, 
1811,  1814,  1816;  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.  He 
moved  to  Cooper  County,  Missouri,  about  1818-1819,  where 
he  lived  until  his  death,  being  buried  there  in  the  Lebanon 
Cumberland  Presbyterian  graveyard. 

He  married  at  Abingdon,  Virginia,  March  i,  1787,  Mary 
(Polly)  Ewing,  daughter  of  George  Ewing.  She  died  in 
Lafayette  County,  Missouri,  September  18,  1832,  and  is 
buried  about  four  miles  west  of  Lexington,  in  the  Ewing 
graveyard.     Issue : 

(i)  William  Young  Conn,  born  January  23,  1788; 
married  (first)  in  Logan  County,  Kentucky,  October  14, 
1 8 10,  Ann  Read  (sister  of  Anthony  Foster  Read),  who  died 
in  Logan  County,  Kentucky,  April  12,  1812.  Issue  of  first 
marriage : 

1ST.  James  Urban;  married  (first)  Amanda  S.  Stapp, 
of  Lafayette  County,  Missouri,  and  (second)  Addie  A.  Wil- 
son of  Lafayette    County,  Missouri. 

2ND.  Sally  Ann,  died  December  7,  1883;  married  Wm. 
H.  Renick,  of  Lafayette  County,  Missouri.  Issue:  Eliza- 
beth Ann,  married  George  W.  Livisay;  John  Strother, 
married  Rebecca  Pullett ;  James  William,  married  Elizabeth 
Livisay;  Columbus,  married  Clara  Pullett;  Mary  Read, 
married  David  J.  Moore ;  Ephraim  Foster,  and  Susan  P. 

He   (William  Young  Conn)   married   (second)   October 

^Sketch  by  Dr.  A.  L.  Butt,  of  Russellville,  Kentucky. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cogxate  Branche&  53 

22,  1840,  Sallie  D.  Porter  (Mrs.  Sallie  D.  McKae).  Issue 
of  this  second  marriage : 

1ST.  Mary  M.,  married  Robert  R.  Moore,  of  Lafayette 
County,  Missouri. 

2ND.     Pamela  S.,  married  F.  L.  Fishback. 

3RD.  L.  Jane,  married  Dr.  W.  W.  Woodward,  of  La- 
fayette County,  Missouri. 

(2)  Baker  \\'\,  born  January  i,  1790. 

(3)  Reuben  A.,  born  1792,  died  Cooper  County,  Mis- 
souri, May,  1871,  buried  there  at  Lebanon;  he  moved  to 
Cooper  County,  Missouri,  in  1819-  1820;  member  of  Mis- 
souri State  Senate  1840- 1844;  married  181 3,  Mary  (Polly) 
Hammond,  who  died  1875;  buried  at  Lebanon.     Issue: 

1ST.  William  Caldwell,  born  July  14,  18 14;  died  January 
20,  1882,  at  Eureka,  Arkansas;  went  to  Cooper  County, 
Missouri,  with  his  parents,  in  1819;  member  of  the  Missouri 
Legislature,  from  Cooper  County  1854-1855,  1879;  married 
February  3,  1845,  Lucretia  Perry  Corum,  daughter  of  Henry 
Corum.  Issue :  Nine  children,  among  them  Oscar  F.,  born 
May  8,  1854;  married  October  23,  1888,  Sue  W.  Rodgers; 
Eva  E.,  born  November  22,  1859,  married  December  11, 
1885,  Sterling  P.  Coe;  William  Henry  Clay,  born  August 
5,  1864,  married  November  20,  1889,  Celeste  Stephens; 
Lilly. 

2ND.     Mary  J. 

3RD.  Jarvis  H.,  born  in  Cooper  County,  Missouri,  Oct- 
ober 26,  18 19;  married  Martha  A.  Marye  September  10, 
1856;  she  was  born  July,  1836.  Issue:  Margaret  S.,  Mary 
D.,  Nanny  Lee,  Reuben  A.,  Ida  F.,  Everett  L.,  Nadine, 
Stella,  Fanny  Bell,  married  Emanuel  Stephens,  but  died 
seven  months  after  marriage. 

4TH.  Margaret  R.,  twin  to  Sally  A.  She  married 
June  20,  1855,  John  H.  Stephens.  Issue:  Sally  E.,  married 
John  W.  Wheeler ;  Anna  R.,  married  Robert  L.  Harrison, 
and  three  other  daughters,  Mattie,  Gussie,  and  Clara  Lin- 
dell. 

The  other  children  of  Reuben  A.  Ewing  and  Mary 
(Polly)  Hammond  were  Sally  A.,  twin  to  Margaret  R. ; 
Amanda  F.,  married  Dr.  H.  H.  Miller;  Robert  Morrow; 
Finis  v.,  and  Job. 

(4)  Nellie  Caldwell,  born  September  9,  1793,  died  Jan- 
uary 18,  1857,  Cooper  County,  Missouri,  married  Logan 
County,  Kentucky,  181 1,  Anthony  Foster  Read,  born  Nel- 


54  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

son  County,  Kentucky,  December  30,  1788;  died  Cooper 
County,  Missouri,  October  3,  1845,  and  buried  there,  at 
Pleasant  Green ;  he  was  a  member  of  the  Kentucky  Legisla- 
ture for  many  years,  and  was  Sheriff  of  Todd  County,  Ken- 
tucky; they  moved  to  Cooper  County,  Missouri,  in  1826, 
and  settled  near  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Lebanon.  He  was  a  Judge  of  the  Cooper  County  Court, 
1 831-1834;  he  was  the  son  of  John  Read  and  Sally  Foster, 
born  December  29,  1766,  aunt  of  Hon.  Ephraim  H.  Foster, 
of  Tennessee.  His  grandfather,  John  Read,  came  from 
London,  England,  in  1725,  settled  in  Alexandria,  Virginia, 
and  married  Nancy  Sebastian,  Spanish,  a  sister  of  Hon. 
Benjamin  Sebastian,  Governor  of  Louisiana.     Issue : 

1ST.  Sally  Foster,  born  October  11,  1812,  died  Cooper 
County,  Missouri,  July  28,  1848,  married  Henry  Rubey 
Foster,  born  March  4,  1803,  died  February  8,  1873.  Issue: 
Amanda  Ellen,  born  February  17,  1832,  died  July  3,  1851, 
unmarried;  and  Anthony  Winston,  born  October  20,  1837, 
died  September  11,  1865. 

2ND.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  February  17,  1814,  died 
Cooper  County,  Missouri,  June  20,  1872,  and  buried  there, 
at  Pleasant  Green;  she  married  April  13,  1831,  Anthony 
Smith  Walker,  born  Bourbon  County,  Kentucky,  November 
19,  1805,  died  at  Pleasant  Green,  Cooper  County,  Missouri, 
September  26,  1863;  his  father,  Winston  Walker,  was  born 
in  Henry  County,  Virginia,  September  25,  1780,  died  Cooper 
County,  Missouri,  August  30,  1855,  moved  to  Kentucky, 
and  from  there  to  Cooper  County,  Missouri,  in  1826,  mar- 
ried August  19,  1800,  Polly  Rubey,  born  Berkeley,  Virginia, 
March  18,  1785,  died  June  13,  1872;  his  grandfather, 
Samuel  Walker,  was  an  only  son,  born,  Virginia,  March 
16,  1739,  died  Overton  County,  Tennessee,  January  4,  1834, 
moved  to  North  Carolina  after  close  of  Revolutionary  War, 
married  Nancy  Smith.  He,  Anthony  Smith  Walker,  was 
Assessor  of  Cooper  County,  1835,  Judge  of  the  Cooper 
County  Court,  1842,  and  member  of  Missouri  Legislature, 
Cooper  County,  1844-1860.  Issue:  James  Henry,  born 
April  8,  1832,  married  September  15,  1857,  Belle  West,  of 
Kentucky;  Addison  Read,  born  January  6,  1834,  died 
December  31,  1836;  Mary  Ellen,  born  September  23,  1836, 
married  John  L.  Hickman ;  Anthony  Addison  Winston, 
born  April  15,  1839,  married  December  3,  1868,  Margaret 
Tutt,  had  a  daughter,  Margaret ;  John  Read  Samuel,  born 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Ccgnate  Branches  55 

March  i8,  1846,  died  January  1900,  married  October  13, 
1880,  Alice  Brevard  Ewing  (Robert,  Finis,  Ephraim 
Brevard),  (q.  v.)  ;  Sarah  Florence,  born  June  29,  1849,  died 
June  21,  1885,  married  Allen  H.  Conkwright. 

3RD.  William  E.,  born  April  19,  1820,  died  January  23, 
1847,  rnarried  Caroline  McQueen,  daughter  of  Col.  Mc- 
Queen, of  Lafayette  County,  Missouri. 

4TH.  Anthony  James,  born  December  23,  1824,  died 
July  25,  1876,  married  January  14,  1847,  Evaline  J.  Ewing 
(Robert  Chatham,  Robert).  Issue:  Betty,  married  John 
Deckard;  Nannie,  Foster,  Eva,  married  George  Titsworth; 
Finis  C,  Sally,  Blanche,  Anthony  James,  and  Katherine. 

(5  Polly  Baker,  born  February  6,  1795,  died  Lafayette 
County,  Missouri,  buried  in  the  Ewing  graveyard,  married 
Maj.  Bryant  Sanders,  of  Kentucky,  buried  with  his  wife. 
Issue,  Mary  J.,  Reuben  E.,  Sidney  C,  and  John  W. 

(6)  Nancy  W.,  born  January  12,  1797,  married  Kyrum 
Dunn,  no  issue. 

(7)  Sidney  R.,  born  February  2,  1799,  married  Joshua 
Campbell,  no  issue. 

(8)  George  N.  E.,  born  February  22,  1801,  married 
Lucinda  Rubey,  daughter  of  Thomas  Rubey  and  Jane  Car- 
son ;  he,  Thomas  Rubey,  was  a  brother  of  Polly  Rubey,  who 
married  Winston  Walker,  they  being,  as  we  have  seen,  the 
parents  of  Anthony  Smith  Walker.    Issue : 

1ST.     Araminta. 

2ND.  Milton,  married  1859  Lucy  Gordon  (Robert,  Sid- 
ney Ann,  Nancy).  Issue:  George  Gordon,  married  Ollie 
Crockett,  and  lived  at  last  account  in  Nevada,  Missouri ; 
Young,  married  Lizzie  Taul ;  William  H.,  married  Mary 
Prewitt ;  Betty  R.,  married  Willis  Merrill ;  Martha  married 
D.  F.  Woodward ;  Lee  Boyd,  an  attorney-at-law,  married 
Edith  Moore,  and  at  last  account  lived  in  Nevada,  Missouri ; 
Charles  Milton. 

3RD.  William  H.,  married  Mrs.  Susan  Jane  Ewing  Fort 
(Robert,  Finis,  Thompson  McGready),  (q.  v.). 

(9)  Jane  J.,  born  January  23,  1803,  in  Logan  County, 
Kentucky,  died  in  Cooper  County,  Missouri,  and  buried 
there  at  Pleasant  Green,  with  her  husband;  she  married 
September  6,  1821,  William  B.  Rubey,  born  1800,  brother 
of  Lucinda,  who  married  Jane  J.'s  brother,  George  N.  E. 
Ewing.  Issue:  Urban  Ewing,  George  W.,  William  H., 
Smith  W.,  Francis  M.,  Thomas,  and  Lavinia. 


56  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Bkanches 

REUBEN    EWING 

son  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker)  Ewing,  was  born  in  Bed- 
ford County,  Virginia,  1766,  died  1823. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Kentucky  Constitutional  Con- 
vention, 1799,  from  Logan  County;  one  of  the  Judges  of  the 
First  Court  of  Quarter  Sessions,  Logan  County,  1801 ;  and 
Associate  Justice  of  the  First  Circuit  Court,  1803,  and  a 
member  of  the  Kentucky  Legislature,  from  Logan  County, 
1822;  he  married  about  1791,  Frances  C.  Whitsett,  daughter 
of  William  Whitsett  and  Ellen  Menus.    Issue : 

(i)  James  W.,  married  Lucile  Breathitt,  daughter  of 
Caldwell  Breathitt  (brother  of  Governor  John  Breathitt  of 
Kentucky).  Issue:  Ellen,  married  and  had  children, 
Lucile  and  Cobie. 

(2)  Young,  died  unmarried. 

(3)  Mary,  married  Ephraim  McLean.     Issue: 

1ST.  Sarah  Ellen,  married  George  Thomas  Blakey,  of 
Logan  County,  Kentucky.  Issue :  William,  an  attorney- 
at-law  of  Evansville,  Indiana,  married  Carrie  McDonald,  of 
New  Albany,  Indiana;  Lucile,  married  Dr.  Thomas  Whit- 
sett Blakey  (her  cousin)  of  Hopkinsville,  Kentucky;  a  child, 
Sally  George;  Susan,  married  General  Heard,  of  Washing- 
ton, Georgia;  George  Davidson,  married  Miss  Heard, 
daughter  of  General  Heard  by  former  marriage. 

2ND.  George  Davidson,  went  to  California,  and  became 
wealthy;  he  is  supposed  to  have  died  November  4,  1897. 

(4)  Elizabeth,  married  Andrew  Jackson  McLean,  of 
Logan  County,  Kentucky.  Issue :  Two  daughters,  one  of 
whom  married  Rev.  J.  S.  Guider,  a  prominent  Cumberland 
Presbyterian  minister. 

CHATHAM  EWlNG 

son  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker)  Ewing,  was  born  in  Bed- 
ford County,  Virginia,  in  1770,  and  died  in  Lafayette 
County,  Missouri. 

He  moved  from  Abingdon,  Washington  County,  Virginia, 
to  Logan  County,  Kentucky,  in  1796,  and  thence  to  Lafay- 
ette County,  Missouri,  in  1821,  and  lived  there  until  his 
death,  he  and  his  wife  both  being  buried  in  the  Ewing  grave- 
yard near  his  home. 

He  was  a  leading  elder  in  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian 
Church;  married  April  14,  1790,  Elizabeth  Campbell,  born 
in  Virginia,  1766,  daughter  of  Moses  Campbell.     Issue: 


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(i)  Young,  born  January  1791,  married  Elizabeth 
Renick,  daughter  of  Col.  Henry  Renick. 

(2)  William,  born  September  23,  1792,  died  August  13, 
1813,  unmarried. 

(3)  Jane  C,  born  February  25,  1795,  married  Rev. 
Green  P.  Rice,  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church. 

(4)  Calvin,  born  January  4,  1796,  died  January  2,  1798. 

(5)  Robert,  born  February  20,  1798,  married  Elizabeth 
Campbell,  daughter  of  Aaron  Campbell  and  Grace  William- 
son. 

(6)  John  D.,  born  November  30,  1800,  died  and  buried 
in  Clay  County,  Missouri,  married  in  Clay  County,  Missouri, 
Ruth  Moore.  Issue :  Charles  R.,  John  D.,  Robert  C,  and 
Nettie  C,  married  L.  Arnold,  and  she  died  in  1881. 

(7)  Chatham  S.,  born  November  30,  1800  (twin  to  John 
D.),  married  Mrs.  Mary  Anderson  Ewing  Kavanaugh 
(Robert,  Finis).  Issue:  Willie  A.,  married  Charles  Lee 
Ewing  (Robert,  Finis,  Thompson  McGready),  (q.  v.). 

(8)  Mary  (Polly),  born  October  13,  1802,  married 
Robert  Archie  Renick. 

(9)  Nellie  W.,  born  April  28,  1806,  married  Harvey 
Gleaves, 

( 10)  Finis  W.,  born  November  30,  1809,  having  a  daugh- 
ter by  his  marriage,  Aletha  Jane,  who  married  Washington 
Perry  Ewing  (Robert,  Finis),   (q.  v.). 


CHAPTER  XII. 

FINIS  EWING,  YOUNGEST  SON  OF  ROBERT  AND  MARY   (BAKER) 
EWING,   AND  HIS  DESCENDANTS. 

FINIS  EWING 

the  twelfth  child  and  youngest  son  of  Robert  and  Mary 
(Baker)  Ewing,  was  born  in  Bedford  County,  Virginia, 
July  10,  1773,  died  at  Lexington,  Missouri,  July  4,   1841. 

He  moved  to  what  is  now  Tennessee,  with  his  older 
brothers  and  sisters,  after  the  death  of  their  father,  and 
settled  about  six  miles  north  of  Nashville,  Davidson  Coun- 
ty, near  the  Spring  Hill  Church ;  removed  to  Logan  County, 
Kentucky,  in  1794,  and  settled  about  eight  miles  from 
Russellville,  near  the  Red  River  Meeting  House.  Began 
preaching  in  1800,  and  was  ordained  by  the  Cumberland 
Presbytery  in  November,  1803.  The  Cumberland  Presby- 
tery seceded  in  December,  1809,  and  the  Cumberland 
Presbyterian  Church  was  organized  February  10,  1810,  by 
Finis  Ewing,  assisted  by  Samuel  McAdoo,  Samuel  King  and 
Ephraim  McLean. 

He,  Finis  Ewing,  removed  to  Christian  (now  Todd) 
County,  Kentucky,  about  1811-1812;  lived  at  Ewingsville 
post  office,  was  post  master  of  Ewingsville,  and  had  pas- 
toral charge  of  the  Lebanon  congregation. 

He  left  Kentucky  for  Missouri  in  May,  1820,  settled  in 
Cooper  County,  Missouri;  established  there  Ewingsville 
post  office,  and  was  post  master,  and  organized  the  New 
Lebanon  congregation. 

He  was  appointed  Registrar  of  the  Land  Office  by  Presi- 
dent Jackson  in  1830,  and  held  that  office  until  1841. 

He  removed  to  Lafayette  County,  Missouri,  in  1832,  and 
settled  first  near  Lexington,  and  in  1836  moved  to  Lexing- 
ton, where  he  lived  until  his  death. 

His  sermons  have  been  published,  and  a  biography  has 
been  written  of  him,  entitled  "Ewing,  Rev.  Finis  E.,  one 
of  the  Fathers  and  Founders  of  the  Cumberland  Presby- 
terian Church." 

He  married  in  Davidson  County,  Tennessee,  January  15, 
1793,  Margaret  Davidson,  born  January  23,  1774,  died 
December  12,  1868,  daughter  of  General  William  Lee  David- 
son, born  1746,  and  killed  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution, 
while  serving  as  a  General  on  the  side  of  Independence,  at 
the  battle  of  Cowan's  Ford  on  the  Catawba  River,  February 
I,  1781.     He  had  succeeded  Griffith  Rutherford  in  com- 

(58) 


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mand.  '  Mary  Brevard,  wife  of  General  William  Davidson, 
and  mother  of  Finis's  wife,  Margaret,  was  the  daughter  of 
John  Brevard  and  his  wife,  nee  McWhorter.  An  interesting 
biography  has  been  written  of  General  Davidson's  wife, 
Mary  Brevard,  entitled  "Aunt  Peggy." 

Issue  of  the  marriage  of  Finis  Ewing  and  Margaret 
Davidson : 

(i)  Winifred  Warren,  born  August  23,  1794,  died 
Cooper  County,  Missouri,  June,  1838;  married  February  28, 
1822,  Cooper  County,  Missouri,  Henry  Magrada  Rubey, 
born  January  27,  1798,  died  July  3,  1876.    Issue: 

1ST.  Mary  Angeline,  born  December  3,  1822,  died  Sep- 
tember 14,  1896,  married  October  31,  1845,  Rev.  Peter  Rea 
of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church ;  children :  Ann 
Winifred,  Caroline  Frances,  married  Professor  T.  W. 
Johnston,  of  Booneville,  Missouri;  Joseph  Henry;  Mary 
Harrison,  and  Robert. 

2ND.  Margaret  Jane,  born  August  16,  1824,  died  Nov- 
ember 3,  1875,  married  Charles  Bohannon;  children: 
Charles,  went  to  California  soon  after  Civil  War,  and  Alice, 
married  Mr.  Fowler  of  Pettis  County,  Missouri. 

3RD.  Pamela  McLean,  born  October  i,  1826,  married 
Rev.  James  Martin  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church, 
Marshall,  Missouri;  child,  Minnie,  married  October  31, 
1893,  Rev.  G.  B.  Beatty,  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian 
Church,  Westport,  Kansas  City,  Missouri. 

4TH.  Thomas  Lee,  born  November  18,  1828,  died  in 
infancy. 

5TH.  Virginia,  born  November  12,  1832,  married  Wil- 
liam Corum. 

(2)  William  Lee  Davidson,  born  in  Logan  County, 
Kentucky,  March  i,  1796,  died  in  Springfield,  111.,  March 
25,  1846;  he  removed  to  Illinois  about  1818,  while  it  was 
yet  a  territory ;  was  appointed  Receiver  of  public  moneys 
for  Vandalia  District  by  President  Monroe,  February  11, 
1825;  member  of  Illinois  Legislature,  Fayette  County,  1831 ; 
elected  Speaker  of  the  House;  Major  of  the  Spy  Battalion, 
3rd  Brigade,  Illinois  Troops,  in  the  Black  Hawk  War  of 
1832;  member  of  Illinois  State  Senate,  1832;  elected  Presi- 
dent of  the  Senate. 

He  became  acting  Governor  of  Illinois  November  15  to 

'Arthur's  Western  North  Carolina,  pages  151-152;  Wheeler's  History  of 
North  Carolina,  Volume  11,  pages  232-233;  Moore's  History  of  North  Carolina, 
Volume  1,  page  305. 


60  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cohnate  Brancuec! 

December  9,  1834,  on  resignation  of  Governor  John  Rey- 
nolds. 

He  was  elected  to  the  United  States  Senate  December 
29,  1835,  to  March  4,  1837,  to  fill  vacancy  caused  by  the 
death  of  Honorable  Elisha  K.  Kane. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois  Legislature,  Fayette 
County,  1840,  elected  Speaker  of  the  House;  was  a  General 
in  the  Illionois  State  Militia ;  elected  State  Auditor  by  the 
Illinois  Legislature  March  6,  1843,  re-elected  February  18, 
1845,  si^<^  died  in  office. 

He  married  May  3,  1827,  Caroline  S.  Berry,  died  Sep- 
tember 17,  1883,  daughter  of  Colonel  Elisha  Berry,  State 
Auditor  of  Illinois,  and  prominent  in  early  Illinois  affairs. 
Issue : 

1ST.  James  Thompson,  born  March  16,  1828,  died  Jan- 
uary 4,  1869,  unmarried. 

2ND.  Margaret  Mildred,  born  Fayette  County,  Illinois, 
November  16,  1830,  married  May  24,  1849,  Michael  Gun- 
daker  Dale.  Issue:  Ewing  (M.  D.),  born  March  6,  1850, 
died  unmarried;  Emma  Berry,  born  July  26,  1851,  died  in 
childhood;  James  B.,  born  July  6,  1853,  of  Edwardsville, 
Illinois,  married  January  23,  1887,  Rebecca  Lee  Evans,  a 
child  Douglas,  born  February  29,  1892;  Carrie  May,  born 
May  25,  1855,  died  April,  1871 ;  Anna,  born  June  3,  1858, 
died  in  childhood;  Charles  Stapp,  born  July  2,  1867,  died 
1904,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  married  1895,  Elba  Stilwell ;  Lee 
Ewing,  born  August  3,  1872,  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  mar- 
ried and  had  child,  E.  Ewing;  Samuel  G.,  born  August  25, 
1877,  died  February  1905,  unmarried. 

3RD.  Elijah  Finis,  born  November  21,  1832,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 

4TH.     Charles  Edgar,  born  July  18,  1837,  died  in  infancy. 

5TH.  Alice  Caroline,  born  August  31,  1839,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 

6th.  Jessie  Marion,  born  Fayette  County,  Illinois,  Sep- 
tember 22,  1842,  married  June  4,  1868,  Granville  Malcolm 
Cole,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  born  Ashtabula  County, 
Ohio,  November  20,  1834,  died  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  Aug- 
ust 27,  1909.    Issue : 

(a)  Dale  Stapp,  born  June  25,  1869,  died  December  6, 
1885. 

(b)  Caroline  Marie,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri. 

(c)  Jessie  Mildred,  married  January  1900,  James  T. 
Kelly,  died  January  26,  191 1.     Children:  Ewing  Cole,  born 


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December  19,  1900;  Katherine  Louise,  born  December  18, 
1902;  Caroline  Mildred,  born  March  28,  1906;  James  Dan- 
iel, born  September  12,  1908. 

(d)  Clement  King,  born  October  16,  1874;  married 
November  1905,  Frankie  Hyder;  child,  Clement  King. 

(e)  Lynette,  born  June  15,  1876,  died  1905,  unmarried. 

(f)  Louise,   born   August   25,    1878,   died  January   23, 

1895- 

(g)  Granville  Malcolm,  born  May  18,  1880,  of  Kansas 

City,  Missouri. 

(h)  Margaret,  born  November  8,  1881,  of  Eugene, 
Oregon,  married  October  16,  1909,  Emmet  Joseph  Mont- 
gomery Finneran. 

(i)  Edward  Ewing,  born  January  i,  1884,  of  Kansas 
City,  Missouri,  married  October  9,  1907,  Emily  Barzen; 
child,  Ewing  Barzen,  born  September  12,  1909. 

(3)  Thompson  McGready,  born  Logan  County,  Ken- 
tucky, June  15,  1798;  died  February  20,  1871,  removed  to 
Christian  (now  Todd)  County,  Kentucky,  with  his  parents 
about  1811-1812;  member  of  the  Kentucky  Legislature, 
Todd  County,  1827-1828;  Presidential  Elector,  Kentucky, 
1832;  moved  to  Missouri,  settled  in  Lafayette  County,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Constitutional  Convention 
of  1845. 

He  married  (i)  September  18,  1819,  Mary  Pettis 
Barron,  born  in  Virginia,  1804,  died  in  Todd  County,  Ken- 
aucky,  1833.     Issue : 

1ST.  Susan  Jane,  born  Todd  County,  Kentucky,  July  8, 
1821,  died  Roswell,  New  Mexico,  September  10,  1890; 
married  (i)  Todd  County,  Kentucky,  1838,  Washington 
Fort,  who  died  in  1840.  Lssue  of  this  marriage,  one  child, 
Mary  D.,  born  August  6,  1839,  married  1858,  C.  Benjamin 
Russell,  of  Robinson  County,  Tennessee.  Their  issue :  Wil- 
liam H.,  born  February  18,  i860,  married  at  Whitesboro, 
Texas,  March  12,  1884,  Ella  Kelly.  Their  children:  Ben- 
jamin Kelly,  born  September  29,  1889;  James  C,  born  June 
21,  1890,  died  May  21,  1892,  and  Lawson,  born  October 
18,  1892;  Fort,  born  January  26  1862,  died  December  3, 
1862;  C.  Benjamin,  born  January  16,  1864,  died  March  7, 
1864;  Dora  Myrtle,  born  January  11,  1866,  married  August 
20,  1890,  James  B.  Lockbridge,  of  Kansas  City  Missouri; 
Mamie,  born  August  2j,  1872,  married  December  2(i,  1892, 
M.  J.  Bowen,  of  Wilmington,  Delaware;  Daisy  Ewing,  born 
March  6,  1875;  Fannie,  born  December  20,  1877. 


62  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Bbanches 

Susan  Jane  Ewing  married  (second)  William  H  Ewing 
(Robert,  Urban,  George  N.  E.)  of  Lexington,  Missouri. 
Issue  of  this  marriage : 

(a)  Medora,  born  October  ii,  1842;  married  March 
28,  1861,  James  H.  Catron,  of  Lexington,  Missouri.  Issue: 
Bedie,  born  March  13,  1862,  married  1885,  E.  K.  Bradley 
of  Nebraska  City,  Nebraska;  child,  Henry  C,  born  1893;  a 
son  (M.  E.)  born  December  6,  1866,  married  July  21,  1891, 
Mary  W.  Lawton,  of  Nebraska  City,  Nebraska;  a  child  (J. 
H.)  born  March  2,  1872. 

(b)  Betty  G.,  born  April  13,  1849;  married  March  21, 
1866,  Charles  W.  Haines,  of  Liberty,  Missouri.  Issue :  Jen- 
nie B.,  born  January  6,  1867;  married  March  22,  1888,  W. 
C.  Burris,  of  Windsor,  Missouri.  Children :  Mildred,  born 
March  21,  1889,  died  February  7,  1890;  D.  Haines,  born 
October  20,  1891,  and  Katherine,  born  January  11,  1894; 
Mittie  S.,  born  July  i,  1869,  died  February  9,  1872;  Dola 
E.,  born  December  29,  1873;  Ewing,  born  September  28, 
1876,  died  October  31,  1877;  William  H.,  born  July  24, 
1878,  died  July  27,  1882;  Mamie  B.,  born  November  6, 
1887. 

(c)  Thompson  McGready,  born  i860,  died  in  infancy. 
2ND.     Albert  Barron,  born  January'  23,  1824,  died  1850, 

in  California ;  unmarried. 

3RD.  Pamela  Margaret,  born  Todd  County,  Kentucky, 
November  9,  1825;  died  Danville,  Kentucky,  March  13, 
1879;  married  Lafayette  County,  Missouri,  June  18,  1845, 
Charles  E.  Bowman,  of  Danville,  Kentucky. 

Issue:  Mary  G.,  born  1846,  died  in  infancy;  Sally  An- 
nette, born  1848;  Georgette  Ewing,  bom  1852;  Wilmoth 
Wallace,  born  1856;  Charles  Ewing,  born  1859,  died  1896, 
St.  Louis,  Missouri;  unmarried. 

4TH.     Charles  Lee,  born  Todd  County,  Kentucky,  May 

10,  1827;  removed  with  his  parents  to  Lafayette  County, 
Missouri;  married  Lafayette  County,  Missouri,  December 
6,  1 85 1,  Willie  A.  Ewing  (Robert  Chatham,  Chatham  S.). 
Issue : 

(a)  Sonoma  D.,  born  October  i,  1854,  died  February  20, 
1859. 

(b)  Chatham  H.,  born  September  6,  1858;  died  May 
28,  1859. 

(c)  Mary  Susan,  born  July  18,  i860;  married  November 

11,  1883,  Chatham  E.  Prather,  of  Lafayette  County,  Mis- 


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souri;  children:  Albert  Ewing,  born  September  i,  1884; 
Henry  Lee,  born  October  10,  1886;  John  L.,  born  January 
17,  1888;  Willie  T.,  born  April  17,  1891. 

(d)     Charles  Lee,  born  March  17,  1866. 

5TH.  Theodore  Thompson,  born  March  11,  1829;  died 
1855,  in  Central  America. 

6th.  Mary  Barron,  born  Todd  County,  Kentucky,  Oct- 
ober 6,  1831;  died  Nappa,  California,  May  1881 ;  married 
December  6,  1853,  Judge  William  C.  Wallace,  of  Nappa, 
California;  died  1895.  Issue,  William  C,  born  1858;  Belle, 
born  1862,  and  Lee  Ewing,  born  1864,  all  in  California. 

He,  Thompson  McGready  Ewing,  married  (second),  on 
April  6,  1836,  Mrs.  Piety  D.  Greenfield,  who  died  in  Ken- 
tucky, 1840.     Issue  of  this  marriage : 

1ST.  Finis,  born  August  30,  1837,  Todd  County,  Ken- 
tucky, and  removed  with  his  parents  to  Lafayette  County, 
Missouri. 

He  married  (first)  October  14,  1858,  Mrs.  Delinia  Wim- 
berly  of  Montgomery  County,  Tennessee,  died  April  6,  1867. 
Issue : 

(a)  Ella  D.,  born  September  7,  1859;  married  February 
7,  1878,  Thomas  C.  Mimms;  children:  Sallie  D.,  born  Dec- 
ember 9,  1878;  Thomas  C,  born  March  19,  1883;  Maude, 
born  August  1886,  died  in  infancy;  George  D.,  born  January 
16,  1889. 

(b)  Maude,  born  1861 ;  died  August,  1863. 

(c)  A  son,  name  not  known,  died  in  infancy. 

He,  Finis  Ewing,  son  of  Thompson  McGready  Ewing, 
married  (second)  February  8,  1870,  a  lady,  surnamed  Polk, 
of  Tennessee.  Issue:'  Bowman  C,  born  July  7,  1871 ; 
Finis  J.,  born  April  28,  1874;  Bessie  May,  born  September 
6,  1876,  died  October  7,  1882;  Maude,  born  August  5,  1879; 
Polk  T.,  born  April  19,  1883 ;  Robert  Lee,  born  June  4, 
1885;  May  D.,  born  June  28,  1890. 

2ND.  Piety  Fort,  born  March  6,  1840;  died  August  18, 
1840. 

He,  Thompson  McGready  Ewing,  married  (third)  in 
Lafayette  County,  Missouri,  February  3,  1842,  Anne  Marie 
Windsor.     Issue  of  this  marriage : 

1ST.     Isadora    Windsor,   born   Lafayette    County,     Mis- 
souri, April  12,  1843;  di^d  Lexington,  Missouri,  June,  1882; 
married    Lexington,    Missouri,    December  1862,    John    E. 
Burden,  of  Lexington,  Missouri.    Issue: 
5 


64  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Bbanches 

(a)  Eugene  M.,  born  October,  1863;  died  1868. 

(b)  Eldridge,  born  January,  1865. 

(c)  Charles  Triplett,  born  1867;  died  1869. 

(d)  Anna  Patti,  born  1870;  married  1893,  Thomas  J. 
Burgess  of  St.  Joseph,  Missouri;  child:  Irene  Patti,  born 
1894. 

(e)  Isadora  Maude,  born  1873. 

2ND.  Eugene  M.,  born  December  21,  1845;  ^i^^  un- 
married. 

3RD.  Arnold  Thomas,  born  July  20,  1847;  ^i^d  June, 
1882,  at  Lexington,  Missouri. 

4TH.  Thompson  McGready,  born  July  15,  1849;  married 
1884,  Alice  G.  Hill,  of  Nappa,  California;  died  1884. 

5TH.     Henr}'  B.,  born  June  21,  1851. 

6th.  Maria  P.,  born  Lafayette  County,  Missouri,  July 
27,  1853;  married  February  19,  1884,  Charles  W.  Sullivan, 
and  lived  near  Garden  City,  Cass  County,  Missouri.  Issue : 
Anna  M.,  born  December  1885;  died  August  1886;  Edgar 
H.,  born  February  10,  1887;  Bessie,  born  July  7,  1889; 
Willie,  born  December  15,  1891. 

7TH.  Betty  R.,  born  July  17,  1855;  married  January  10, 
1895,  James  M.  Warren,  of  Warrensburg,  Missouri. 

8th.     Ida  M.,  born  June  15,  1857. 

9TH.  Lee  Davidson,  born  February  18,  1859;  died  1909; 
married  October,  1893,  Jessie  Warmack,  of  Clarksville, 
Tennessee.    They  are  understood  to  have  had  two  sons. 

(4)  Polly,  born  September  15,  1800;  died  October  9, 
1800. 

(5)  Dovey  Bryan,  born  September  13,  1801 ;  died 
October  27,  1802. 

(6)  Baxter  McGee,  born  September  9,  1803;  died 
August  16,  1822. 

(7)  Mary  Anderson,  born  Logan  County,  Kentucky, 
June  25,  1805;  married  (first)  July  11,  1821,  Archibald 
Kavanaugh ;  died  September  1837.    Issue  : 

1ST.  Baxter,  who  married  and  had  a  daughter,  Fanny; 
he  died  in  Ray  County,  Missouri,  and  she  moved  to  Califor- 
nia. 

2ND.  Anna,  married  (first)  Dr.  Diggs,  of  Lexington, 
Missouri,  and  (second)  Rev.  Dr.  C.  A.  Davis,  of  Memphis, 
Tennessee,  of  which  union  were  born  a  daughter,  Molly,  and 
two  sons. 

3RD.  Finis  (M.  D.),  was  a  surgeon  in  the  Confederate 
States  Army,  and  afterwards  died  in  Mexico. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Beanches  65 

4TH.  Pamela,  died  in  New  Mexico;  she  married  Reuben 
Letton.    Issue,  two  sons.  Buck  and  Archibald. 

She,  Mary  Anderson  Ewing,  married  (second)  Chatham 
S.  Ewing  (Robert,  Chatham).  Issue,  see  Chatham  S.  Ewing, 
supra. 

(8)  Margaret  Davidson,  born  Logan  County,  Kentucky, 
July  28,  1807,  died  September,  1897;  married  Cooper  Coun- 
ty, Missouri,  December  13,  1826,  Rev.  Robert  Sloan  of  the 
Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church;  he  was  born  May  11, 
1801 ;  died  May  27,  1868,  and  was  a  son  of  Alexander 
Sloan,  who  came  to  Cooper  County,  Missouri,  about  1819- 
1820.    Issue: 

1ST.  Alfred  Baxter,  born  September  24,  1827;  M.  D. ; 
lived  Kansas  City,  Missouri;  married  December  20,  1855, 
Mary  A.  Railey.    Issue  : 

(a)  Charles  Clarence,  born  October  18,  1856;  married 
November  27,  1878,  Mary  Townsend  Addams;  children: 
Edith  Terrill,  born  October  16,  1879;  Helen,  born  March 
]6.  1881 ;  died  June,  1881,  and  Earl  Bodgess,  born  December 
9,  1884. 

(b)  Sally  Lee  Davidson,  born  April  3,  1859;  lived  Kan- 
sas City,  Missouri;  married  May  11,  1881,  William  Rankin 
Hogsett;  child:     William  Sloan,  born  September  29,  T883. 

(c)  Robert  Tarlton,  born  March  30,  1861  ;  M.  D. ;  lived 
Kansas  City,  Missouri;  married  May  25,  1887,  Carrie  R. 
Parks;  child:     Mary  Roberta,  born  May  17,  1888. 

(d)  Rowland  Bodgess,  born  December  29,  1866. 

(e)  Alfred  McGready,  born  July  10,  1870. 

(f)  Alice  Patton,  born  December  3,  1875;  married  Wil- 
liam Smallwood. 

2ND.  Frances  Kavanaugh,  born  September  16,  1829; 
married  January  14,  1847,  Greenup  J.  Jones.     Issue : 

(a)  William  Stone,  born  October  5,  1847.  He  married 
(first)  October  9,  1870,  Mary  Depp;  died  May  15,  1884. 
Issue:  Walter  Lee,  born  November  15,  1872;  Jessie 
Frances,  born  August  23,  1874;  married  June  6.  1896, 
Louis  Dougherty;  Harry,  born  April  2,  1876;  Mary  D.. 
born  May  7,  1884.  He  married  (second)  August  18,  1885, 
Eva  C.  Smoot. 

(b)  Robert  Lewis,  born  January  28,  1850;  married 
January  18,  1872,  Louisa  Columbia  Snider.  Issue,  Mary 
Edith,  born  January  8,  1873;  married  October  9,  1893, 
Charles  Rarick ;  Children:  Hazel  Ewing,  born  June  3.  1894; 
died  April  30,  1895,  and  Charles  De  Leon,,  born  September 


66  The  Ewing  Genealogit  with  Cognate  Branches 

9,  1896;  Fanny  Marilla,  born  May  14,  1878;  Charles  Clin- 
ton, bom  December  11,  1881 ;  William  Snider,  born  August 

5,  1886;  Robert  Sloan,  bom  October  15,  1889. 

(c)  Alfred  Price,  born  January  29,  1852;  died  Septem- 
ber 29,  1872. 

(d)  Porter  McClanahan,  born  January  3,  1854. 

(e)  Alexander  McGready,  born  April  2y,  1856;  married 
May  21,  1895,  Lizzie  Walker.  Issue:  Mary  Frances,  born 
September  5,  1896. 

(f)  Lizzie  M.,  born  April  8,  1858;  married  November 

6,  1879,  Reuben  K.  Johnson.  Issue:  Alfred  Givens,  born 
August  21,  1880;  John  Wornald,  born  July  22,  1883;  died 
November  11,  1886;  Finis  Ewing,  born  July  16,  1886;  Fan- 
nie Kesiah,  born  March  7,  1888, 

(g)  Charles  Lee,  born  June  29,  i860;  married  June  6, 
1886,  Ella  Stewart.  Issue:  Raymond  Stewart,  July  29, 
1889;  died  October  6,  1895. 

(h)  Mary  Katherine,  born  June  15,  1866;  died  Decem- 
ber 6,  1896;  married  August  3,  1887,  William  T.  Longshore. 
Issue:  Jones  William,  born  July  17,  1892;  Mary  Lillian, 
born  July  17,  1892. 

(i)     Edwin  Franklin,  born  December  17,  1868. 

(j)     James  Bryant,  born  April  5,  1871. 

(k)  Clarence  Givens,  born  May  18,  1873;  died  March 
18,  1893. 

(1)     Claude  Emmet,  born  February  i,  1875. 

3RD.  Ewing  McGready,  born  August  10,  1831,  died  St. 
Louis,  Missouri,  February  3,  1906;  married  November  6, 
1856,  Helen  Chew.    Issue: 

(a)  Katherine  L. 

(b)  Mary  L.,  married  David  Humphreys.  Issue:  Ew- 
ing L.  and  David. 

(c)  Roberta  L.,  married  Willard  Oliver.  Issue:  Wil- 
lard. 

(d)  Frances  L.,  married  Charles  P.  J.  Bryant,  of  Kan- 
sas City,  Missouri. 

(e)  Helen  Chew,  married  William  W.  Keyser. 

(f)  Ewing  D. 

4TH.  Katherine  Winifred,  born  October  13,  1833;  died 
August  12,  1867;  married  January  13,  1852,  Silas  Price 
Keller.    Issue : 

(a)  Mary  Bartriff,  born  Febmary  18,  1853;  married 
October  8,  1879,  Allen  Glenn.  Issue:  Hugh  Gibson,  bom 
February  13,  1881 ;  Price  Keller,  born  September  7,  1882; 


The  Ewing  Gene.\xogy  with  Cognate  Branches  67 

Mary  Elizabeth,  born  April  22,  1884;  Allen  Bristol,  born 
December  25,  1885;  Margaret,  born  and  died  December  13, 
1887, "Winifred  Sloan,  born  February  3,  1889;  Robert 
Charles,  born  April  8,  1891 ;  Ewing  Suggett,  born  April  16, 
1893;  Helen  Brown,  born  August  18,  1895. 

(b)  Fannie,  born  December  24,  1854.  She  married 
(first)  October  9,  1878,  Sumner  C.  Bristol;  died  September 
13,  1884.  Issue:  Katherine  Curtis,  born  August  9,  1879, 
and  Helen  Glenn,  born  May  21,  1883;  died  January  6,  1885. 
She  married  (second)  Franklin  Lee  Miller,  of  Kansas  City, 
Missouri;  no  issue. 

(c)  Jennie,  born  June  29,  1857;  died  May  29,  1864. 

(d)  Helen  Campbell,  born  November  3,  1859;  married 
June  3,  1891,  William  Bailey  Upton.  Issue:  William  Bailey, 
born  March  15,  1892;  Mary  Frances,  born  February  22, 
1894;  died  October  7,  1895. 

(e)  Charles  Price,  born  May  27,  1862;  married  Septem- 
ber 25,  1890,  Maude  Irwin.  Issue,  Margaret  McLellan, 
born  November  29,  1891 ;  Helen  Davis,  born  September 
16   1896. 

(f)  Robert  William,  born  January  30,  1865;  died  June 
10,  1894. 

(g)  Katherine  Sloan,  born  June  26,  1867;  died  May  3, 
1869. 

5TH.  Alexander  Thompson,  born  February  18,  1836; 
married  Mary  McClanahan,  February  7,  1871.  Issue: 
Harriet  Lee,  born  June  25,  1872,  died  November  5,  1879; 
Margaret  C,  born  October  25,  1874,  and  Charles  W.,  born 
April  16.  1876. 

6th.  Robert  Lee,  born  July  18,  1838;  died  November 
ro,  1885;  married  February,  1873,  Anna  Wood;  died  July 
1885 ;  no  issue. 

7TH.  Finis  Ewing,  born  December  23,  1840;  died  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1851. 

8th.  Charles  W.,  born  December  24,  1842,  at  Harrison- 
ville,  Missouri.  He  married  (first)  April  8,  1875,  Alice 
Patton ;  died  December  10,  1875;  no  issue.  He  married 
(second)  January  28,  1880,  Jennie  Todd.    Issue: 

(a)  Florence  Ewing,  born  May  10,  1881 ;  married 
December  20,  1900,  Harry  Scott  Vaughn,  of  Nashville, 
Tennessee.  Issue:  William  Scott,  born  December  8, 
1902;  Charles  Sloan,  born  October  31,  1904;  Houghton 
Davidson,  born  August  12,  1907. 

(b)  Helen  Todd,  born  July  13,  1885. 


68  The  Ewing  Genkalogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

9TH.  Margaret  Pamela,  born  February  ii,  1845;  died 
December  18,  1866;  married  August  20,  1865,  William  L. 
Yantis;  no  issue. 

lOTH.  Mary  Phoebe,  born  September  6,  1847;  died 
August  5,  1849. 

iiTH.  Ephraim  Perry,  born  February  19,  1850;  died 
December  24,  1879;  married  November  25,  1874,  Ada 
Hunter.  Issue:  Ephraim  Hunter,  born  January  8,  1876, 
and  Lee  Roman,  born  October  6,   1878. 

I2TH.  James  Finis,  born  February  7,  1852;  died  October 
15,  1852. 

(9)  Pamela  Jane,  bom  Logan  County,  Kentucky, 
August  4,  1809;  died  in  Austin,  Texas,  1881 ;  she  married 
(first)  James  W.  Read,  of  Danville,  Kentucky;  died  Febru- 
ary 6,  1829.    Issue : 

1ST.  Mary,  married  Robert  Mitchell  Forbes;  born  in 
Virginia,  afterwards  of  Port  Lavaca,  Texas.     Children : 

(a)  Fannie,  married  W.  G.  Sterrett,  of  Dallas,  Texas. 

(b)  Alice,  widow  of  W.  J.  Townsend,  of  Dallas,  Texas. 

(c)  Jeannette,  married  W.  A.  Blackwell,  of  Cuero, 
Texas. 

(d)  Robert  Ewing,  living  in  State  of  Washington. 

(e)  Maggie,  married  Otto  Staerker,  of  Cuero,  Texas. 

(f)  Richard,  of  St.  Joseph,  Missouri. 

Pamela  Jane  married  (second)  in  1830,  Horsely  Rea, 
born  1804;  died  December  7,  1849. 

2ND.  Carrie,  a  daughter  of  this  union,  was  born  in 
Booneville,  Missouri,  May  13,  1836;  married  November  16, 
1854,  at  Lavaca,  Texas,  George  Preston  Finlay,  who  be- 
came a  prominent  and  distinguished  lawyer  of  Texas,  and 
was  an  orator  of  great  force  and  eloquence;  he  was  born 
November  16,  1829,  in  Augusta,  Perry  County,  Mississippi, 
and  died  March  24,  191 1,  being  buried  in  Austin,  Texas. 
Issue : 

(a)  Julia  Howard,  born  August  27,  1855;  married  May 
17,  1881,  Hart  H.  Settle,  of  Galveston,  Texas.    Issue: 

(aa)     Julia  Finlay,  born  July  29,  1882;  married  May 
2.2,  1907,  Robert  Lawson  Pierce;  children:  Julia  Settle, 
born  June  25,  1908,  and  Elizabeth  Lawson,  born  May 
17,  1910. 
(bb)     George  Finlay,  born  January  4,  1885. 

(b)  Quitman,  born  July  21,  1865;  married  November 
6,  1889,  Alice  Josephine  Downs,  of  Waco,  Texas.  Child: 
Alice  Dorothy,  born  January  31,  1897. 


The  EwiXG  Genealogi  with  Cognate  Branches  G9 

(c)  Virgilia  Octavia,  born  March  12,  1870;  married 
February  26,  1895,  David  Edw.  Simmons,  a  lawyer  of 
distinction,  who  was  Assistant  Attorney  General  of  Texas, 
and  later  U.  S.  District  Attorney  for  the  Southern  District 
of  Texas.    Children : 

(aa)  George  Finlay,  born  October  25,  1895,  who  was 
Second  Lieutenant  Adjutant  of  the  Medical  Corps  in 
the  War  with  Germany,  and 

(bb)  David  Andrew,  born  May  31,  1897,  who  was 
Second  Lieutenant  of  the  air  service  in  that  war. 

(10)  Finis  Young,  born  in  Kentucky,  October  19,  181 1 ; 
died  May  12,  1891 ;  married  Jane  T.  Price.    Issue: 

1ST.     Anna,  married  Benjamin  Newsom.    Issue: 

(a)  Emma,  married  Joseph  D.  Sheppard.  Issue:  Lucy, 
Benjamin  N.,  Joseph  D. 

(b)  Rush  Elmore. 

(c)  Carrie  C,  married  Paul  Harding.  Issue:  Paul, 
died  in  infancy. 

(d)  Grace,  married  twice  (first),  George  Miller  Clarke. 
Issue :    George  Miller. 

2ND.     Carrie  A.,  married  John  D.  Clayton. 
3RD.     William  Lee  Davidson,  married  Lizzie  Ballantine. 
Issue :  Willie,  died  in  infancy. 
4TH.     Finette.  died  in  infancy. 
5TH.     Katherine,  died  unmarried. 
6th.     Emma,  died  in  infancy. 
7TH.     Charles,  married  Dora  Hall. 

(11)  Washington  Perry,  born  March  16,  1814;  died 
June,  1867;  married  December  18,  1834,  Aletha  Jane  Ewing 
(Robert,  Chatham.  Finis  W.).     Issue: 

1ST.  Aletha  Olivia,  married  Frank  W.  Shattuck,  lived 
in  California.  Issue  :  Arthur  Ewing;  William  Finis,  married 
Millie  Camm,  child  Paul ;  Rena ;  Frank  Olivia ;  Mattie 
Newell;  Aletha  Lee,  married  Henry  Ellsworth.  Children: 
Arthur  Shattuck,  Olivia,  Rena,  and  Mildred  Aletha. 

2ND.     Lee  Davidson,  died  in  infancy. 

3RD.  Mary  Henrietta,  died  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  1866,  of 
cholera ;  married  David  K.  Newell.  Issue :  a  daughter.  Bet- 
tie,  married  Robert  A.  Barr.     Child :     Aletha  Mary. 

4TH.  Finis  Young,  of  Vernon  County,  Missouri.  He 
married  (first)  Mattie  Davis.  Children:  Finis  Lee  and 
Mattie  Olivia.  He  married  (second)  Anna  Phillippy. 
Children,  besides  one  who  died  in  infancy ;  Jane  Elizabeth, 
Anna  Washington,  and  Arthur  Washington. 


70  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

5TH.  Washington  Perry,  married  (first)  Roberta  Kava- 
naugh.  Issue:  Carrie  Kavanaugh.  He  married  (second) 
Hattie  Rees.  Issue:  William  Rees,  Mary  Emma,  Frank 
Finis,  and  Bessie. 

6th.  Lee  Davidson,  was  a  practicing  physician,  lived  in 
Texas ;  married  Bettie  Harris.  Issue :  Delmar  Harris,  mar- 
ried Nannie  Gordon  Drake;  Finis  Waldo;  Duke;  Lee  Bre- 
vard ;  Forest  Otha. 

(12)  Robert  Chatham  Donnell,  born  in  Todd  County, 
Kentucky,  March  16,  1816;  married  November  9,  1841, 
Maria  L.  Harris.  Issue :  Ella  Harris,  married  J.  C.  Robin- 
son. Children :  Roberta,  Norma,  Aubrey  E.,  Wirt  J.,  and 
Irene  F. ;  Roberta  M.,  married  John  E.  McCormick;  Clar- 
ence O. ;  Norma  D.,  married  W.  F.  Chadwick;  Minnie  R., 
died  in  infancy;  Finette  W.,  died  in  infancy;  Mary  A.,  died 
in  infancy;  Robert  Finis,  died  unmarried. 

(13)  Ephraim  Brevard  (Barnett),  born  Todd  County, 
Kentucky,  May  16,  1819;  died  in  Missouri  June  21,  1873, 
of  brain  fever;  moved  to  Cooper  County,  Missouri,  with  his 
parents  in  May,  1820,  and  thence  to  Lafayette  County, 
Missouri,  in  1832;  attended  Cumberland  College,  Prince- 
ton, Kentucky ;  studied  law  in  private  law  school  of  Judge 
Buckner,  St.  Louis,  Missouri ;  completed  his  law  studies  in 
the  office  of  his  brother,  Robert  Chatham  Donnell,  in  Rich- 
mond, Missouri;  admitted  to  the  bar,  Richmond,  Missouri, 
1842,  and  immediately  formed  a  partnership  with  his  said 
brother. 

He  was  Secretary  of  the  Missouri  State  Senate,  1846; 
member  of  the  Missouri  Legislature,  from  Ray  County, 
1848;  Presidential  Elector  the  same  year;  appointed  Secre- 
tary of  State,  Missouri,  April  7,  1849,  and  served  to  1852; 
was  elected  Attorney  General  of  Missouri  August,  1856; 
elected  to  Missouri  Supreme  Court,  August,  1859,  office 
vacated  by  Convention  of  1861. 

He  resumed  the  practice  of  the  law  in  Jefferson  City, 
Missouri,  in  the  autumn  of  1861 ;  moved  to  St.  Louis,  Mis- 
souri, in  1864,  and  there  continued  his  law  practice;  was 
elected  Circuit  Judge,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  was  elected 
to  Missouri  Supreme  Court,  November,  1872.  for  eight 
years,  dying  in  office.' 

He  married,  Ray  County,  Missouri,  June  4,  1845;  Ehza- 

>The  Green  Bag,  Oct.,  1899,  containing  his  biography  by  Judge  Charles  W.  Sloan; 

Phelan's  Hist,  of  Tenn.,  pp.  135,  224;  51-53  Mo  Repts.;  Biogra- 
phy of  Finis  Ewing,  entitled  "Ewing,  Rev.  Finis  E.,  one  of  the  Fa- 
thers  and   Founders  of   the  Cumberland    Presbyterian    Church." 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  71 

beth  Ann  Allen,  died  Jefferson  City,  Missouri,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Thomas  Allen  and  Nancy  Watkins,  said  Nancy  a  daugh- 
ter of  Col.  Thomas  Watkins  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  A. 
Venable,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  Woodson 
Venable,  and  grand  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Martha 
Davis  Venable,  of  Virginia.     Issue  : 

1ST.  Anna,  born  Richmond,  Missouri,  March  29,  1846; 
died  Washington,  D.  C,  January  6,  1894;  she  was  a  very 
brilliant  and  accomplished  woman.  On  July  23,  1873,  she 
married  Francis  Marion  Cockrell,  a  distinguished  leader, 
born  October  i,  1834,  son  of  Joseph  Cockrell  and  Nancy 
Ellis,  of  Johnson  Co.,  IMissouri;  he  was  a  Brigadier  General, 
C.  S.  A.;  U.  S.  Senator  from  Missouri,  1875-1905;  was 
Interstate  Commerce  Commissioner  to  relocate  the  boundary 
lines  between  Texas  and  New  Mexico.    Issue : 

(a)  Ewing,  born  May  28,  1874;  an  attorney  at  law, 
abode,  Warrensburg,  Missouri ;  graduate  of  Harvard,  A.  B,, 
University  of  Virginia,  LL.  B.,  Columbia  University,  A.  M. ; 
prosecuting  attorney  of  Johnson  County,  Missouri,  1902- 
1910;  married  Staunton,  Virginia,  June  3,  1896,  Leacy 
Peachy  Williams,  daughter  of  Leroy  Eustace  Williams  and 
Flora  McDonald  of  Virginia.  Issue :  Anna  Ewing,  born 
June  22,  1898;  Flora  McDonald,  born  June  14,  1900; 
Francis  Marion,  born  December  14,  1906;  Eustace  Williams, 
born  November  5,  1909. 

(b)  Marion,  born  August  3,  1875,  abode  Norwich,  Con- 
necticut; married  Februar}^  14,  1903,  Edson  Fessenden 
Gallaudet,  a  graduate  of  Yale.  Issue :  Francis  Cockrell, 
bom  April  14,  1904;  Marion  Cockrell,  born  Februar}'  10, 
1907,  and  a  child  Denise. 

(c)  Francis  Marion,  born  Januarys  17,  1877;  attended 
Columbian  University,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  married  Nov- 
ember 5,  1902,  jMiller  Pope,  born  February  6,  1879;  daugh- 
ter of  W.  S.  Pope  and  Lucy  Miller,  of  Jefferson  City, 
Missouri.  He  is  a  leading  business  man,  of  enterprising 
capacity,  and  has  been  engaged  in  discharge  of  the  active 
duties  of  president  of  the  Cockrell  Manufacturing  Co.,  Ltd., 
operating  at  Gramercy,  Louisiana,  with  his  headquarters  in 
Louisville,  Kentucky. 

(d)  Ephraim  Brevard,  born  May  7,  1881 ;  married  St. 
Louis,  Missouri.  Hazel  Hogan. 

(e)  Allen  Vardaman.  born  January  22,  1883,  married 
Mrs.  Frances  Elliot  Reed. 


72  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

(f)  Anna  Ewing,  born  May  26,  1884;  abode  Athens, 
Greece;  married  July,  191 1,  Lambros  A.  Coromilas. 

2ND.  Alice  Brevard,  born  1847-1848,  Richmond,  Mis- 
souri; died  January  10,  1914;  married  Jefferson  City,  Mis- 
souri, October  13,  1880,  John  Read  Samuel  Walker  (Robert, 
Urban,  Nellie  Caldwell,  Mary  Elizabeth),  born  March  18, 
1846;  died  January,  1900,  a  man  of  marked  prominence, 
who  attended  Yale,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Booneville, 
Missouri,  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Legislature,  from  Coop- 
er County;  U.  S.  District  Attorney  for  Western  District  of 
Missouri,  removing  after  his  appointment  as  such  to  Kan- 
sas City,  Missouri,  where  he  lived  until  his  death.  Issue; 
Alice  Brevard,  bom  July  29,  1881,  died  1897;  John  Read, 
born  December  31,  1882;  Ewing  Anthony,  born  December 
16,  1885;  Ephraim  Brevard,  born  November  17,  1893.  She 
(Alice  Brevard  Ewing  W^alker)  was  a  woman  of  dis- 
tinguished and  remarkable  ability,  of  not  only  State  but 
National  fame.  She  was  Vice  President  General  and  Hon- 
orary Vice  President  General  of  the  National  Society  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  a  lifesized  por- 
trait of  her  is  hung  in  the  Continental  Memorial  Hall,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  She  was  possessed  of  much  oratorical  ability ; 
was  the  chosen  speaker  on  "Daughters'  Day"  at  the  Lou- 
isiana Purchase  Exposition,  and  at  the  Jamestown  Exposi- 
tion, and  once  before  a  Committee  of  the  United  States 
Senate.  She  had  served  as  President  for  the  Daughters  of 
the  Confederacy  and  the  Women's  Christian  Temperance 
Union,  and  was  the  organizer  of  the  Round  Table  Club  of 
Jefferson  City,  being  the  first  study  club  of  Missouri.  At 
the  time  of  her  death,  she  was  Honorary  member  of  the 
Booneville  Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution ;  Honorary  member  of  the  .Stonewall  Jackson  Chap- 
ter of  the  United  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy ;  Honorary 
member  of  the  Old  Men's  Association ;  a  Charter  member 
of  the  19th  Century  Club;  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City 
Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution ;  Vice- 
President  General  for  life  of  the  National  Society  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  a  member  of 
the  Missouri  Valley  Historical  Society.' 

3RD.  Henry  Watkins,  born  Richmond,  Missouri,  July  4, 
1849;  died  Battle  Creek,  Michigan,  September  i,  1898;  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  grad- 

' Resolutions  of  the  Kansas  City  Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Rev* 
olution,  adopted  Jan.  19,  1914 


ALICE  BREVARD    EWlNGi  WALKER 


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uating  from  the  High  School  with  the  highest  honors ;  he 
was  graduated  from  the  Missouri  State  University,  1872, 
B.  A.,  winning  orator's  medal.  He  was  elected  Clerk  of  the 
Missouri  Supreme  Court  in  1873,  after  the  death  of  his 
father,  and  served  until  1891,  declining  re-election.  In  1884, 
he  purchased  a  controlling  interest  in  the  Tribune  Printing 
Office,  of  Jefferson  City,  Missouri,  and  was  editor  of  the 
Tribune  until  his  death;  he  was  president  of  the  Missouri 
Press  Association,  1896-1897;  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Missouri  Society,  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  on  the  first 
Board  of  Managers ;  also  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Colon- 
ial Wars.  He  married,  Jefferson  City,  Missouri,  Mattic 
Chappell.  Children:  Mary,  Clay,  Jack,  and  Dorothy;  last 
named  born  January  1894. 

4TH.  Margaret,  married  in  1877,  John  Cabell  Wilkin- 
son, born  December  13,  1846;  son  Jane  Browder  Cabell, 
born  July  14,  1823,  died  January  21,  1849,  and  Thomas 
Parks  Wilkinson,  a  lawyer.  He,  John  Cabell  Wilkinson, 
served  in  the  C.  S.  A.,  and  afterwards  was  prominently 
connected  with  the  Hargadine-McKittrick  Dry  Goods  Com- 
pany, in  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  Issue  of  this  marriage :  Mar- 
garet, William  Tudor,  Jane  Alice,  John  Cabell,  Elizabeth 
Allen  (dead),  Florence  Ewing  and  Dorothy  Brevard. 


CHAPTER  XIII. 

ROBERT   EWING  II.,   SON   OF  ROBERT   AND   MARY    (BAKER) 

ewing;  his  birth,  career,  marriage  and 
children. 

robert  ewing  ii 
son  of  Robert  Ewing  I  and  Mary  Baker,  {q.  v.),  was  bom 
in  Bedford  County,  Virginia,  1760,  died  in  Logan  County, 
Kentucky,  July  14,  1832;  buried  in  the  old  Red  River 
Churchyard,  about  five  miles  northeast  of  Adairville,  Ken- 
tucky. 

He  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  petition  of  the  Peaks 
of  Otter  Presbyterian  Church,  Bedford  County,  Virginia, 
May,  1774,  to  the  General  Assembly  of  Virginia. 

He  was  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

He  moved  to  Davidson  County,  Tennessee,  then  North 
Carolina,  in  1784;  was  a  member  of  the  North  Carolina 
Legislature  from  Davidson  County,  1 787-1 789,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  North  Carolina  Convention  of  1789  for 
adoption  of  the  United  States  Constitution. 

He  moved  to  Logan  County,  Kentucky,  in  1792;  was  a 
member  of  the  Kentucky  Legislature,  from  Logan  County, 
1797;  member  of  the  Kentucky  State  Senate,  1806-1818, 
and  President  of  the  Senate,  1818. 

He  was  Presidential  Elector  in  1808,  and  again  in  18 12, 
and  again  in  18 16, 

He  was  commissioned  Brigadier  General,  December  19, 
1799,  commanding  the  nth  Kentucky  Brigade,  including 
regiments  of  Logan,  Henderson,  Muhlenburg,  Christian  and 
Livingston  Counties. 

He  was  Brigadier  General  in  the  War  with  Great  Britain 
in  1812. 

The  inscription  on  his  tombstone  is  suggestive  of  his  illus- 
trious career,  and  his  fine  qualities  of  character.  It 
follows : 

IN    MEMORY 

OF 

GENERAL  ROBERT  EWING, 

"A  Soldier  of  the  Revolution,  who  departed  this 
life  14th  of  July,  1832,  in  the  73rd  year  of  his  age. 
He  was  born  in  Virginia  in  1760,  removed  to 
West  Tennessee  in  1781,  from  whence  he  was 
elected  and  served  two  sessions  in  the  North  Caro- 
lina Legislature.  Was  married  to  Jane  McLean 
(74) 


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on    the   4th   of    July,    1787;    removed   to    Logan 
County,   Kentucky,   in    1792;   was  elected  to   the 
Legislature  of  Kentucky  in   1797  and  served  21 
years  in  succession,  sixteen  (16)  in  the  Senate  and 
the  last  two  as  its  President.     He  was  the  Oracle 
of  his  family,  and  among  his  neighbors,  emphatic- 
ally a  Peacemaker." 
As  we  read  that  epitaph  of  service,  speaking  to  us  from 
the  moldering  dust  of  a  hero  who  toiled  in  the  wilderness  of 
the  land  we  love,  we  are  much  impressed  by  what  is  said 
in  Foote's  Sketches,  page  83,  in  these  words : 

"Men  will  not  be  able  to  understand  till  they 
have  opened  the  treasures  of  history  and  drawn 
forth  some  few  particulars  respecting  the  origin 
and  religious  habits  of  the  Scotch-Irish  and  be- 
come familiar  with  their  doings  previous  to  the 
Revolution — during  the  painful  struggle — and  the 
succeeding  years  of  prosperity." 
He,  Robert  Ewing  H,  married  at  Adairville,  Logan 
County,  Kentucky,  July  4,  1787,  Jane  McLean.     Issue: 

I.  ELIZABETH  (Bctsy)  DAVIDSON,  born  June  i,  1788, 
Davidson  County,  Tennessee,  died  May  14,  185 1 ;  married 
General  Thomas  Jefferson  Townsend.    Issue : 

(i)  Robert  Jefferson,  born  August  18,  1807;  died  of 
cholera,  July  23,  1849;  married  December  23,  1845,  Sarah 
Ann  Beauchamp.     Issue: 

1ST.  Gilson  Columbus,  born  September  24,  1846;  died 
October  5,  1861. 

2ND.  Robert  Presley,  a  prominent  physician  and  sur- 
geon of  Adairville,  Kentucky,  born  April  i,  1848.  He 
married  (first)  November  25,  1875,  Emma  Tyler  Smith, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Darrell  B.  Smith,  of  Todd  County,  Ken- 
tucky. Issue:  A  daughter,  Martha  Smith,  unmarried,  liv- 
ing in  Nashville,  Tennessee.  He  married  (second)  June, 
1900,  Thomsie  Moore,  daughter  of  William  Moore  of 
Adairville,  Kentucky.  Issue :  Roberta  Moore,  born  July 
9,  1902,  now  a  beautiful  girl  in  her  teens,  as  the  poet  would 
say,  "where  the  brook  and  river  meet." 

(2)  Albert  B.,  born  January  12,  1810;  died  October 
31,  1873,  unmarried. 

(3)  Jane  Pamela,  born  October  7,  1813;  died  February 
20,  1892;  married  (first)  Samuel  Bowling;  no  issue.  She 
married  (second)  Joseph  Link.     Issue: 

Joseph  P.,  married  (first)  Georgie  Radford.    Issue,  Wil- 


76  The  Ewixg  Genealogy  with  Cogxate  Branches 

liam  Whitfield,  married  Sallie  Thurman ;  children :  Anna 
May,  Emmet,  Robert  Edward,  and  Joseph,  died  at  lO 
years  of  age.  He,  Joseph  P.  Link,  married  (second)  Eliza- 
beth Crozier.  Child:  Kathleen,  married  Mr.  Barker,  abode 
Western  Canada. 

(4)  Eliza  Ann,  born  November  4,  1815;  died  October 
30,  1865;  married  John  W.  Judkins.     Issue: 

1ST.  Jane,  born  April  2.^,  1834;  died  July  18,  1880, 
unmarried. 

2ND.  Florence  M.,  born  July  2,  1836;  died  February  15, 
1895;  married  1865,  Edwin  R.  Moore.     Issue: 

(a)  Roy,  born  1866;  married  July,  1900,  Addie  May 
Phelps.  Children:  Edward  Richard,  born  September  12, 
1902;  Smith  Judkins,  born  November  3,  1905;  William 
Herbert,  born  April  i,   1913. 

(b)  Presley,  born  July  18,  1869;  died  February  4,  1895, 
unmarried. 

(c)  Joseph,  born  1879. 

3RD.  John,  born  1846,  died  1894;  married,  1868,  Nannie 
Burns.     Issue : 

(a)  Thomas  R.,  born  1869;  married  Nettie  Ryan. 

(b)  Callie,  born  1871 ;  died  unmarried. 

(c)  Estelle,  born  1873;  married  Egbert  Moore.  Child: 
Mattie  Nadine. 

(d)  Maud,  born  1875;  died  unmarried, 

(e)  Harold,  born  1877. 

(f)  Norma,  born  1879. 

(5)  Mary  M.  A.  D.,  born  August  4.  1818;  died  July, 
1874;  married  1833,  Francis  Marion  Beauchamp.    Issue: 

1ST.  Victoria  E.,  born  May  2,  1838;  died  June  24,  1877; 
married  May  14,  1868,  Thompson  E.  Fort.     Issue: 

(a)  Daisy  Catharine,  born  April  15,  1870;  died  July 
30,  1870. 

(b)  Frank  Thomas,  born  September  11,  1871. 

(c)  Guy  Earl,  born  July  18,  1873;  married  October  15, 
1901,  Myrtle  Gupton. 

(d)  Mabel,  born  July  30,  1875;  married  January  10, 
1903,  E.  F.  True.  Child :  Frank  Fort,  born  September 
20,  1907. 

2ND.  Francis  Marion,  born  March  19,  1840;  married 
May  I,  1867,  Frankie  Simmons.  Issue:  Robert  E.,  bom 
January  3,  1869;  married  June  8,  1909,  Bennie  Lett.  Child: 
Robert  Coleman,  born  March  24,  191 1. 

3RD.     Thomas  Jefferson,  born  1843. 


The  Ewing  Gexealogy  with  Cognate  Bbaxcties  77 

4TH.  Elizabeth,  born  1844;  married  Joseph  Fort; 
moved  to  Arkansas. 

5TH.     Presley,  born  1847;  died  in  infancy. 

6th.  Robert  B.,  born  March  8,  1850;  married  July  8, 
1869,  Columbia  Fuqua.     Issue  : 

(a)  Paul,  born  May  6,  1870;  married  October  12, 
1898,  Chester  Weldon.  Issue:  Helen  C,  born  December 
6,  1900;  Worthington,  born  October  3,  1904;  Frank  H., 
born  July  23,  1906. 

(b)  Eulalie,  born  December  11,  1872;  married  October 
II,  1894,  C.  C.  Simmons.  Issue:  R.  Tilden,  born  August 
8,  1895;  Pauline  W.,  born  September  3,  1896;  Lon  B.,  born 
March  3,  1898;  Charles  H.,  born  April  19,  1901 ;  Felix  M., 
born  September  24,  1909. 

(c)  Kenneth,  bom  September  5,  1875;  married  January 

1,  1900,  Cora  B.  Perry.  Issue:  Mary  Hazel,  born  Decem- 
ber 14,  1900;  Roberta,  born  August  10,  1902;  Paul,  bom 
December  24,  1904;  Virginia  E.,  born  March  23,  1907; 
Douglas,  born  May  9,  1909;  Isabel,  born  June  i,  1911. 

(d)  Wilbur,  bom  October  31,  1879;  married  April, 
1905,  Fannie  Britt.  Issue:  Bertha  M.,  born  February, 
1906;  Eulalie,  born  June  1907;  Robert  H.,  born  July,  1910. 

(e)  Felix,  born  July  3,  1884;  married  May  1909, 
Theresa  Dolores  Witz.  Issue :  Robert  Cameron,  born 
February,  1910;  Norma,  born  February,  191 1. 

(f)  Norma,  born  August   19,   1887;  married  February 

2,  1909,  Charles  A.  Sweatt.    Issue :    Cecelia  B.,  born  1909. 

(g)  Egborn,  born  February  19,  1890;  married  Novem- 
ber 2^,  igi2,  Hattie  E.  Browning. 

7TH.  Anna,  born  1859;  ^^^^  1889;  she  married  Mr. 
Warren. 

8th.  Edwin  Eugene,  born  1864;  died  1892;  he  married, 
1886,  Capitola  Tisdale. 

(6)  Martha  M.  C,  born  June  13,  1821 ;  died  August 
17,  1855;  married  1848,  P.  O.  Gilbert.    Issue: 

1ST.     Elizabeth,  born  1849;  died  1880,  unmarried. 

2ND.  Martha,  born  1851  ;  married  Lewis  C.  Garrigus, 
abode  Portland,  Oregon.  Children :  Mary  Edith,  Hallie, 
Lewis,  and  Annie. 

3RD.  Presley,  born,  1853;  died  1913;  married  1877,  AUie 
Dardon. 

(7)  Presley  Ewing,  born  February  i,  1823;  died  Dec- 
ember 21,  1896;  married  1844,  Amanda  Offutt.     Issue: 


78  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

1ST.  Robert  Ewing,  born  March  24,  1845;  died  March 
20,  1863,  Confederate  States  Army,  killed  at  Milton, 
Tennessee. 

2ND.  Thomas  Jefferson,  born  July  3,  1846;  married 
(first)  Anna  Ewing  (Robert,  Robert,  George  Washing- 
ton). Child:  Claud.  He  married  (second)  Bettie  V. 
Wooten.     Children :     Wooten  and  Robert. 

3RD.  Martha  Jane,  born  July  6,  1848;  married  October 
5,  1876,  Reuben  Burrow  Penick.  Issue :  Lola  M.,  born 
June  1878,  unmarried;  Eva  Gilson,  born  January  20,  1886, 
abode  Nevada,  Missouri. 

4TH.  Tighlman,  born  February  2,  1850;  died  without 
issue. 

5TH.  Presley,  born  February  19,  1852;  married  Febru- 
ary, 1874,  Fannie  Calloway.    Issue: 

(a)  Virgil  Emmet,  bom  1875,  abode  Oklahoma;  mar- 
ried Mattie  Soyer. 

(b)  Joseph,  born  July,  1876,  abode  Fort  Worth,  Texas; 
married  Lena  Lowe. 

(c)  John  Thomas,  born  February,  1878,  abode  Galves- 
ton, Texas. 

(d)  Tighlman  Offutt,  born  1881,  abode  Galveston, 
Texas. 

(e)  Sabrie  Elizabeth,  born  1885,  abode  Oklahoma;  mar- 
ried Oscar  Campbell. 

(f)  Robert,  bom  1886;  died  1890. 

(g)  Richard,  born  1888,  abode,  Galveston,  Texas, 
(h)     Edward,  born  1891,  abode,  Oklahoma. 
6th.     Susan  Ann,  born  1854. 

7TH.  Joseph,  born  January,  1856;  died  December  28, 
1868. 

8th.  Gilson  Ewing,  bom  March  18,  1858;  married  Sep- 
tember 29,  1886,  Beulah  Eubank.  Children:  Hal  Eubank, 
born  June  19,  1888,  and  Mary  A.,  born  July  14,  1892. 

9TH.  William  (Major),  born  August,  1862;  married 
May  5,  1881,  Mattie  Grider  Hunt.     Issue: 

(a)  Bessie  Ewing,  born  September  4,  1883;  married 
September  5,  1904,  James  Leslie  Orndorff.  Children : 
Martha  Grider,  born  June  8,  1906,  and  Joseph  Tilden,  born 
June  13,  1910.  She,  Bessie  Ewing  (Townsend)  Orndorff, 
of  Bowling  Green,  Kentucky,  is  a  member  of  the  National 
Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  an- 
cestor   Robert    Ewing    II. ;    her    National    Number    being 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  wrrn  Cognate  Branches  79 

104334,  citing  National  Number  64894,  and  National  Num- 
ber 98957. 

(b)  George  Hunt,  born  December  15,  1888. 

(c)  Thomas  Jefferson,  born  August  15,  1892, 

lOTH.  Elizabeth  Davidson,  born  November  2"],  1863; 
married  June  7,  1882,  Dr.  A.  L.  Britt.  Issue :  Winnie 
Estelle,  born  March  2,  1884;  married  October  15,  1913; 
Henry  G.   Sandifer;  AUyne  Amanda,  born  December  13, 


ERRATA. 

P.  75. 

Elizabeth   (Betsy)   Davidson  died  May   14,   1867. 

P.  79. 

Elizabeth  Davidson  Townsend's  husband  was  Dr 
A.  L.  Butt,  not  Britt. 

P.  82. 

Sarah  Temple  Holeman  was  born  August  28,  1897. 


ne  was  uiic  ui  mc  v^umniiaonjin-io  w.*.  m.^  k^v*^^»^».»^  ^ 

of  the  State,  in  association  with  Justices  John  F.  Phillips 
and  Alex  H.  Martin." 

The  author  of  the  sketch  cited  in  the  foot-note  refers  to 
Henry  Clay  Ewing  as  being  a  grandson  of  General  Robert 
Ewing,  saying: 

"His  grandfather  on  his  father's  side  was  Gen- 
eral Robert  Ewing,  of  Logan  County,  Kentucky, 

^Sketch  by  Ex-Gov.  T.  T.  Crittenden,  in  St.  Louis  Christian  Advocate 
of  Jan.    15,   1908. 


78  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

1ST,  Robert  Ewing,  born  March  24,  1845;  died  March 
20,  1863,  Confederate  States  Army,  killed  at  Milton, 
Tennessee. 

2ND.  Thomas  Jefferson,  born  July  3,  1846;  married 
(first)  Anna  Ewing  (Robert,  Robert,  George  Washing- 
ton). Child:  Claud.  He  married  (second)  Bettie  V. 
Wooten.     Children :     Wooten  and  Robert. 

3RD.     Martha  Jane,  born  July  6,  1848;  married  October 

_       ,O^C      r>„..U \i,.^^r...r     V>^.^\fA^  Tcci^.         T  /^lo     A/r        Krvrn 


born  June  19,  1888,  and  Mary  A.,  born  July  14,  1892. 

9TH.  William  (Major),  born  August,  1862;  married 
May  5,  1881,  Mattie  Grider  Hunt.     Issue: 

(a)  Bessie  Ewing,  born  September  4,  1883;  married 
September  5,  1904,  James  Leslie  Orndorff.  Children : 
Martha  Grider,  born  June  8,  1906,  and  Joseph  Tilden,  born 
June  13,  1910.  She,  Bessie  Ewing  (Townsend)  Orndorff, 
of  Bowling  Green,  Kentucky,  is  a  member  of  the  National 
Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  an- 
cestor   Robert    Ewing    H. ;    her    National    Number    being 


The  Ewing  Gknealogy  wiih  Cognate  Branches  79 

104334,  citing  National  Number  64894,  and  National  Num- 
ber 98957. 

(b)  George  Hunt,  born  December  15,  1888. 

(c)  Thomas  Jefferson,  born  August  15,  1892. 

lOTH.  Elizabeth  Davidson,  born  November  2^,  1863; 
married  June  7,  1882,  Dr.  A.  L.  Britt.  Issue :  Winnie 
Estelle,  born  March  2,  1884;  married  October  15,  1913; 
Henry  G.  Sandifer;  AUyne  Amanda,  born  December  13, 
1886;  Mattie  Alberta,  born  September  15,  1892. 

2.  EPHRAIM    MCLEAN    (g.   V.). 

3.  ROBERT  ALLEN,  born  March  4,  1792;  died  December 
8,  1857,  near  Jefferson  City,  Missouri;  studied  law  in  Ken- 
tucky under  Honorable  John  J.  Crittenden;  moved  to  Mis- 
souri, located  at  Jefferson  City,  and  practiced  law;  was 
County  Judge  of  Cole  County,  in  that  State. 

He  married,  Callaway  County,  Missouri,  Jane  Ramsey, 
daughter  of  General  Jonathan  Ramsey.     Issue : 

(i)  Missouri,  married  Robert  Randolph  Jefferson. 
Issue :  Jennie,  married  Mr.  Dunscombe ;  Maria,  married 
Charles  McCarty ;  Mary,  married  Joseph  F.  Edwards. 
Children :  William,  married  Sophie  Kaiser,  and  Ethel, 
married  John  Boone. 

(2)  Robert,  unmarried. 

(3)  Maria,  born  Februar}^  9,  1826;  died  January  31, 
1905.  She  married  Judge  Alton  Long,  who  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Missouri  State  Senate,  1846- 1850. 

(4)  Henry  Clay,  born  August  15,  1828;  died  March 
22,  1907.  He  was  Attorney  General  of  Missouri,  from 
1 873- 1 874,  to  1875-76,  Charles  Hardin  being  at  the  time 
Governor;  also  one  of  the  Fish  Commissioners  of  Missouri 
for  several  years. 

He  was  a  member  of  Missouri  Legislature,  from  Cole 
County,  1 881 -1883. 

He  was  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  State,  in  association  with  Justices  John  F.  Phillips 
and  Alex  H.  Martin.' 

The  author  of  the  sketch  cited  in  the  foot-note  refers  to 
Henry  Qay  Ewing  as  being  a  grandson  of  General  Robert 
Ewing,  saying: 

"His  grandfather  on  his  father's  side  was  Gen- 
eral Robert  Ewing,  of  Logan  County,  Kentucky, 

'Sketch  by  Ex-Gov.  T.  T.  Crittenden,  in  St.  Louis  Christian  Advocate 
of  Jan.    15,   1908. 


80  The  Ewing  Genealogy  wrrii  Cognate  Branches 

a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  and  a  general  in  the 
War  of  1812." 
He    (Henry  Clay  Ewing)   married  Georgia  Childs,  hut 
it  is  understood  there  was  no  issue  of  the  marriage. 

(5)  Ephraim,  died  young. 

(6)  Hannah,  died  at  twelve  years  of  age. 

(7)  Ashley  W.,  born  December  28,  1838;  died  March 
22,  1905;  was  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Legislature,  from 
Cole  County,  1877-1879;  married  Sallie  Bolton,  but  no 
issue. 

(8)  Gilson  (twin  to  Ashley  W.),  born  December  28, 
1838;  married  and  had  issue:  Janet,  married  Howard 
Boone,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri;  Paul,  unmarried;  Olive, 
married  W.  A.  Dallmeyer,  of  Jefferson  City,  Missouri; 
Anne,  married  George  W.  Hobbs;  Ephraim. 

4.  POLLY  BAKER,  born  April  30,  1794;  died  May  22, 
1873.  She  married  (first)  Rev.  Philip  McDonald,  of  the 
Cumberland  Presbyerian  Church,  born  1794;  died  181 5. 
Issue:  Philip  Monroe,  a  minister;  married  and  had  child: 
Molly.     She  married  (second)  Barksdale  Spencer.     Issue: 

(i)     James  B.,  born  1824;  died  September  16,  1854. 

(2)  Robert,  born  1826;  died  without  issue. 

(3)  John,  bom  October  20,  1828;  married  Caroline 
Porter;  no  issue. 

(4)  Mary  Jane,  married  (first)  Mr.  Winlock.  Issue: 
Eliza,  Mattie,  Richard,  and  Robert. 

She  married  (second)  Mr.  Tisdale.  Issue:  William, 
Wilson  and  Capitola,  married  Eugene  Beauchamp. 

(5)  Ephraim  Ewing,  married  and  had  several  children. 

(6)  Randolph,  married  and  had  several  children. 

(7)  Martha  G.,  born  June  10,  1835;  died  June  3,  1870. 
She  married  Dr.  William  Simmons.     Issue : 

1ST.     Richard  L.,  died  in  infancy. 

2ND.  Ewing,  married  (first)  Forest  Hendrickson,  sev- 
eral children,  and  married  (second)  name  of  wife  not 
known,  by  whom  he  had  several  children. 

3RD.  Myrtle,  born  April  10,  1867;  died  May  29,  1897; 
married  January  20,  1887,  Robert  Henry  Fugate,  by  whom 
she  had  a  child^  Myrtle,  bom  April  20,  1897. 

5.  PATSY  MILLS,  born  February  4,  1796;  she  married 
(first)  Mr.  Fort.,  no  issue,  and  (second)  James  Ross,  by 
whom  she  had  a  son,  James,  lived  in  Mississippi  and  killed 
during  the  Civil  War;  also  another  child,  Trippe. 


Dr.  jas.  b.  bowlin: 


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6.  CHATHAM  TOMLiNSON,  borii  April  4,  1798;  died 
December  17,  1819,  unmarried. 

7.  SOPHRONIA,  born  May  15,  1800;  died  October  17, 
1868;  married  April  22,  1819,  Dr.  James  B.  Bowling,  an 
eminent  physician  and  surgeon,  of  Adairville,  Kentucky, 
under  whom  the  authors'  ancestor,  Fayette  Clay  Ewing  I., 
began  the  study  of  medicine  and  surgery,  and  of  whom  the 
tenderest  memories  were  always  cherished  and  transmitted 
to  his  children,  one  of  whom, — his  eldest  daughter  Leila — 
frequently  corresponded  with  Dr.  Bowling  during  his  life. 

The  issue  of  the  marriage  of  Sophronia  Ewing  and  James 
B.  Bowling  follows : 

(i)  Robert  Chatham,  born  February  19,  1820;  died 
March  3,  1886;  was  a  member  of  the  Kentucky  Legislature, 
from  Logan  County,  for  six  years,  and  Circuit  Judge  for 
ten  years;  married  January  7,  1845,  Lucy  C.  Temple. 
Issue : 

1ST.  James  R.,  born  March,  1846;  died  1901 ;  married 
October  5,  1870,  Emma  Walters.     Issue: 

(a)  Robert  Walters,  born  August  12,  1871 ;  M.  D. ; 
abode.  South  Pasadena,  California;  he  married  July  4, 
1900,  Margaret  Duncan.  Children:  Robert  W.,  born  June 
12,  1903;  Anna  Margaret,  born  December  16,  1905;  Wil- 
liam C,  born  October,  191 5. 

(b)  Willett  Lee,  born  May  20,  1881 ;  M.  D. ;  abode, 
Pasadena,  California;  married  December  22,  1912,  Mar- 
guerite Newman.  Children:  James  Robert,  born  Novem- 
ber 7,  1913,  and  a  child  born  June,  191 5. 

2ND.  Temple,  born  August  10,  1849,  died  July  9,  1884; 
married  October  3,  1877,  Ladie  Anderson.    Issue: 

(a)  Ula,  born  July  4,  1878;  married  E.  Ruff  Barnes, 
June  9,  1897.  Children:  Justus  Mac,  born  December  2, 
1902,  and  Robert  Bowling,  bom  June  9,  1906. 

(b)  Temple,  born  July  2-],  1880,  unmarried. 

(c)  Umphrey,  born  February  4,  1882;  married  July  2, 

1910,  Minnie  Hails.     Children :    Umphrey,  born  August  3, 

191 1,  and  Ella  U.,  born  December,  1913. 

3RD.  Ella,  born  August  10,  1851,  abode  Bowling  Green, 
Kentucky;  married  September  21,  1886,  James  Umphrey; 
no  issue.  She  is  a  member  of  the  National  Society  D.  A.  R., 
National  Number  98957,  ancestor,  Robert  Ewing,  and  is 
entitled  also  to  a  bar  under  ancestor,  Ephraim  McLean. 

4TH.  Elizabeth,  born  July  10,  1853;  died  July,  1886, 
unmarried. 


82  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

5TH.  Annie  B.,  born  July,  1857;  died  November  6,  1896; 
married  December  31,  1884,  George  W.  Eichelberger. 
Issue:  Roberta,  born  February  9,  1888;  married  Septem- 
ber II,  1907,  Emmet  R.  Trippe.  A  child:  Gordon,  born 
October  18,  1908. 

6th.  Lula,  born  December  10,  1859;  married  George 
A.  Holeman,  October  26,  1881.  Children:  Lucy  McGin- 
nis,  born  July  9,  1883,  and  Sarah  Temple,  born  August  28, 
1887. 

(2)  William  E.,  born  June  16,  1821 ;  died  June  3,  1878; 
married  Eliza  Jane  Winston;  no  children, 

(3)  James  M.,  born  December  22,  1822;  married  Lucy 
C.  Snadon;  no  children. 

(4)  Henry  Gilson.  born  October  16,  1828;  died  Decem- 
ber 24,  1874;  married  Sallie  Snadon,  August  i,  1849. 
Issue : 

1ST.  Mary  Helen,  born  March  28,  1851 ;  married  Dr. 
Benjamin  Wood  November  22,  1866.    Issue: 

(a)  Sallie  B.,  born  October  4,  1869;  married  Alex  G. 
Warfield,  February  28,  1887.  Issue:  Gilson  H.,  born  July 
10,  1888;  Ben  S.,  born  May  20,  1890,  and  Alex  G.,  born 
October  27,  1892. 

(b)  Henry  G.,  born  October  20,  1874;  married  Nellie 
Robinson,  November  30,  1898;  one  child,  Salaida  Robinson. 

(c)  Flelen  B.,  bom  March  19,  1876;  unmarried. 

(d)  Ewing  C.,  born  January  28,  1881 ;  married  Sallie 
Harris,  April  11,  1900.  Children:  Ewing  H.,  born  in 
1902,  and  Ben  S.,  born  in  1908. 

(e)  James  Weston,  born  June  15,  1884;  unmarried. 

(f)  Bowling  S.,  born  July  12,  1886;  unmarried. 

(g)  George  M.,  born  June  16,  1888;  unmarried, 
(h)     Louise  E.,  born  December  5,  1896;  unmarried. 
2ND.     George  S.,  abode  Clarksville,  Tennessee;  married 

Lady  Bugg,  June  19,  1876;  no  issue. 

3RD.  James  M.,  abode  Clarksville,  Tennessee;  married 
Sallie  Sugg,  January  9,  1878;  daughter  Martha  Bell,  bom 
June,  1881 ;  married  Dr.  James  Whitworth,  December, 
1904.  One  child:  James  Bowling,  born  July  29,  1912. 
'8.  JANE  HOWARD,  bom  April  30,  1804;  died  September 
6,  1831 ;  married  General  Thomas  W.  Townsend.  Issue: 
Martha  Jane,  died  young;  William,  moved  to  Texas,  mar- 
ried Penelope  K.  Campbell,  several  children. 

9.  GILSON  PAYNE,  born  April  27,  1807;  died  February 
16,  1879;  unmarried. 


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10.  GEORGE  WASHINGTON,  bom  Logan  County,  Ken- 
tucky, November  29,  1808;  died  May  20,  1888. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Kentucky  Legislature,  from 
Logan  County,  1842-1844,  and  1859-1863. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Provisional  Confederate  Con- 
gress, 1861-1862,  and  a  member  of  the  Permanent  Confed- 
erate Congress,  1863-1864/ 

He  married  (first)  January  18,  1836,  Susan  C.  Moss, 
who  died  September  15,  1841.     Issue: 

Henry  Clay,  born  November  9,  1837;  died  February  18, 
1879;  married  November  10,  1863,  Bettie  Carr.  Issue: 
Susan  Moss,  born  August  13,  1867;  married  November  16, 
1886,  Samuel  Hart.  Their  issue:  Clay  Ewing,  born 
October  19,  1887;  married  October  25,  191 1,  Mrytle  King; 
Henry,  born  November  13,  1889;  Gilson  Ewing,  born 
August  25,  1894. 

He  (George  Washington  Ewing)  married  (second) 
August  28,  1846,  Nannie  L.  Williams,  died  December  4, 
1883.    Issue: 

John  Anna,  born  April  30,  1848;  died  June  25,  1879; 
married  three  times;  (first)  James  Fetter.  Children: 
James  and  Blossom,  both  died  young;  (second)  Dr.  T.  J. 
Townsend.  Child :  Claud,  abode  Oklahoma ;  married 
twice  and  had  issue;  and  (third)  Leonard  T.  Brawner,  no 
issue. 

JANE   (MCLEAN  )    EWING 

wife  of  Robert  Ewing  II.,  was  the  daughter  of  Ephraim 
McLean  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth   Davidson. 

She  was  born  in  Western  North  Carolina  in  1769,  and 
died  in  Logan  County,  Kentucky,  in  1847,  having  married 
as  stated,  on  July  4,  1787. 

She  was  in  statue  tall  and  stately,  of  the  handsome  rather 
than  pretty  type,  a  queenly  woman  of  the  strong  and  self- 
poised  sort,  well  calculated  to  give  to  the  world  sons  and 
daughters  for  useful  service  of  an  exalted  character. 


^Wood's    Confed.    Handbook,   p.    18;     McEIroy's    Kentucky    in    the    Nation's 
History,  p.   511. 


CHAPTER  Xi^. 

THE    MCLEAN*    TREE:    LINEAGE    OF    JANE    MCLEAN,    WIFE    OF 
ROBT.   EWING  II. 

The  McLean  family  was  among  the  most  illustrious  of 
the  clans  of  the  Scottish  Highlands,  famous  in  achievement 
and  of  ancient  ancestry.  The  name  is  authoritatively  stated 
to  have  originally  been  written  "Mac-Ghille-eain."  reduced 
under  Gaelic  contraction  to  Gilleain,  meaning  "Servant  of 
St.  John."  The  family  is  said  to  trace  with  precision  to 
"Old  Dougall  of  Scone,"  from  whom  through  several  gen- 
erations was  descended  Gilleain,  the  first  chief  and  founder, 
about  1250,  of  the  Clan  Mac  Gilleain,  afterwards  abbre- 
viated to  McLean.  The  clan  originated  in  the  Island  of 
Mull,  which  is  separated  from  the  mainland  of  Scotland 
by  the  Sound  of  Mull  on  the  north  and  the  Firth  of  Lorn 
on  the  east.  After  defeat  of  the  Danes  by  Somerled, 
Thane  of  Argyle,  Mull  and  Morvern  became  free.  Subse- 
quently Angus  Og  MacDonald,  fifth  in  descent  from 
Somerled,  received  for  faithful  services  rendered  to  Robert 
Bruce  considerable  land,  including  the  island  of  Mull,  and 
on  July  12,  1390,  granted  to  Lachlan  MacLean,  probably 
the  fifth  chief  of  the  clan,  a  large  estate  in  Mull  and  other 
isles.  It  would  be  interesting,  but  tedious  in  detail,  to  pur- 
sue the  history  of  the  clan  through  the  periods  of  its  suc- 
cessive chiefs,,  one  of  whom  (Lachlan  Og,  8th  Chief)  mar- 
ried Catherine,  daughter  of  Colin  Campbell,  ist  Earl  of 
Argyle;  therefore,  lest  interest  should  lag,  we  pass  over  as 
undecisive  of  any  controlling  event,  the  intermediate  his- 
tory down  to  Lachlan,  i6th  Chief,  whose  leadership  began 
in  the  earlier  part  of  the  seventeenth  century.  The  clan 
was  then  at  the  zenith  of  great  power  and  influence,  and 
was  in  high  favor  with  Charles  I,  King  of  England,  who, 
about  163  T,  created  the  chief  of  baronet  by  the  title  of  Sir 
Lachlan  MacLean  of  Morvern.  But  the  outskirts  of  this 
promising  sky  were  fringed  with  dark  clouds.  The  civil  wars 
which  resulted  in  the  decapitation  of  King  Charles  I  changed 
into  hostility  the  attitude  of  the  kingly  power  towards  the 
clans,  which  unfriendliness  was  encouraged  by  jealousies 
among  the  clans  themselves,  notably  the  Clan  Mac  Lean,  the 
Clan  Mac  Donald,  and  the  Campbells,  the  latter  Marquises 
of  Argvde.  Oppressive  laws  soon  followed,  among  them  the 

*This  is  properly  and  was  formerly  spelled  MacLean,  but  we  follow  the 
spelling   pretty  generally   adopted   by  the   historians  of  America. 

(84) 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  85 

disarming  act  by  which  the  clans  were  deprived  of  their 
weapons  under  heavy  penaUies,  and  worse  still,  the  act  for- 
bidding the  national  costume  of  the  Highlands,  under  penal- 
ty for  second  offense  of  transportation,  and  compelling  the 
use  of  the  Lowland  garb,  so  despised  by  the  Highlanders. 
These  and  other  acts  of  oppression,  notably  religious  per- 
secutions, which  we  have  already  described,  drove  thous- 
ands of  Highlanders  from  their  native  heath,  sadly  and 
tearfully,  many  immigrating  to  America,  among  them  the 
ancestors  of  the  McLeans  of  whom  we  are  writing.' 

EPHRAIM    MCLEAN 

son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  McLean,  of  Scotland,  latter 
daughter  of  Ephraim  Moore  of  that  country,  was  born  in 
Scotland  in  1730,  and  immigrated  for  America  with  his  elder 
brother  Charles  in  1750,  settling  in  Western  North  Caro- 
lina, where  in  1761  he  married  Elizabeth  Davidson,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Davidson.^ 

He,  Ephraim  McLean  (name  sometimes  by  clerical  in- 
advertence written  McLain  or  McClain),  was  a  recognized 
patriot  of  the  Revolution.  He  was  probably  a  member  of 
the  Convention  which  adopted  the  Mecklenburg  Declara- 
tion of  Independence,  and  was  certainly  a  member,  present 
and  actively  assisting,  at  an  important  meeting  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Safety,  which  was  a  sort  of  legislative  body 
created  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  the  cause  of  Independence, 
and  he  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Commons  of  the 
General  Assembly  of  North  Carolina,  from  Burke  County 
(which  was  formed  from  Rowan  County),  for  the  year 
1778,  and  a  senator  from  such  county  for  the  years  1779- 
1780,  which  was  a  service  promotive  of  the  cause  of 
Independence.' 

He  was  probably  also  a  soldier  for  Independence  in  the 
War  of  the  Revolution,  and  severely  wounded  in  the  Battle 
of  King's  Mountain,  fighting  against  immediate  relatives 
in  the  British  Army  commanded  by  a  Scotchman,  Patrick 
Ferguson.* 

He  shortly  after  removed  to  Harrodsburg,  Kentucky, 
thence  to  about  four  miles  above  Nashville,  Tennessee, 
where  he  settled  on  a  tract  of  600  acres  in  the  bend  of  the 

^McLean  Ancestry   and   Posterity,  by  John  J.    McLean,  pp.   4-15. 

"Hist.  Sketch  of  McLean  Family  in  America  (1750-1885),  by  Alney  Mc- 
Lean,  of   Rutherford    Co.,   Tenn. 

nVheeler's   History  of  North  Carolina,  Vol.   II,  pp.  368,  62,  356,  101-108. 

^"Western  North  Carolina  (1730-1913)"  by  John  Preston  Arthur,  p.  101, 
citinp;  Mattic  S.  Candler's  "History  of  Henderson  County,"  and  also  Id., 
pp.   151-152. 


86  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

Cumberland  River,  known  as  "McLean  Bend;"  in  the  Nash- 
ville Centennial,  1880,  he  was  referred  to  in  a  history  of  the 
early  settlement,  then  published  in  the  newspapers,  as  hav- 
ing been  one  of  the  three  school  trustees  a  hundred  years 
before;  he  returned  to  Harrodsburg  about  that  time,  and 
near  the  close  of  that  century  removed  to  Maury  County, 
Tennessee,  and  settled  on  Knobb  Creek,  where  he  remained 
until  about  1820,  when  he  went,  at  the  advanced  age  of  90 
years,  to  spend  his  remaining  days  with  his  sons,  Alney  and 
Robert,  in  Kentucky,  where  he  died  in  1823  at  93  years 
of  age.' 

By  his  marriage,  he  had  eleven  children,  besides  a  daugh- 
ter dying  in  infancy,  who  was  the  last  child.  They  were 
nine  sons  and  two  daughters,  as  follows : 

1.  John,  born  1762,  and  was  killed  by  the  Indians. 

2.  George,  born  1764,  married  his  cousin,  the  eldest 
daughter  of  General  William  Davidson,  and  settled  in 
Logan  County,  Kentucky,  about  12  miles  west  of  Russell- 
ville,  where  he  lived,  reared  a  family  and  died.  His  young- 
est son,  Andrew  Jackson,  lived  on  a  farm  in  that  vicinity 
and  died  there  in  1884  at  y^  years  of  age. 

3.  Ephraim,  bom  1766,  and  died  in  Tennessee,  and  wa. 
buried  on  Snow  Creek,  Maury  County,  in  that  State. 

4.  JANE,  born  1769,  married  General  Robert  Ewing,  and 
was  the  mother  of  Justice  Ephraim  McLean  Ewing  (q.  v.) 

5.  Mrs.  Robert  (McLean)  Brank,  born  1770,  and  was 
the  mother  of  two  sons,  Houston  and  Ephraim ;  the  latter, 
a  lawyer,  was  a  student  under  Judge  Alney  McLean. 

6.  Samuel,  born  1772,  lived  and  died  near  Lawrence- 
burg,  in  Tennessee. 

7.  Alney,  born  1774,  a  lawyer  and  jurist,  who  married 
and  had  children,  including  (i)  William,  a  farmer;  (2) 
Thornton,  a  Presbyterian  minister  of  distinction,  who  re- 
sided in  Mississippi  and  there  died;  (3)  Robert  Davidson, 
who  was  a  lawyer  and  jurist  (Judge  of  Circuit  Court), 
lived  in  Grenada,  Mississippi,  and  died  there  in  the  yellow 
fever  epidemic  of  1878,  as  did  his  wife,  two  daughters  and 
a  son;  (4)  A  daughter  Eliza  Ann  (McLean)  McBride, 
and  (5)  a  daughter  Tabitha,  who  is  understood  to  have 
been  quite  accomplished  and  learned.    She  never  married. 

8.  Charles,  born  1776,  lived  in  Maury  County,  Tennes- 
see, until  181 1,  and  died  in  Rutherford  County,  Tennessee, 
in  1825.     He  married  in  1799,  Sallie  Vance,  who  died  in 

'Hist.  Sketch  of  McLean  Family  in  America,  supra. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

1847  ^t  the  age  of  69  years.  From  this  union  were  born 
ten  children,  six  sons,  namely,  David,  Ephraim  Baxter, 
Charles  Grandison,  William  (M.  D.),  Robert  Brank  and 
Alney,  and  four  daughters,  Susan  Howard  Davidson,  Pris- 
cilla  Brank  McCutcheon,  Sarah  Jane  Baird  and  Cynthia 
Nadley.  All  lived  and  died  in  Tennessee  except  Dr.  Wil- 
liam McLean,  who  lived  and  died  in  Tyler  County,  Texas, 
and  Mrs.  McCutcheon,  who  lived  and  died  in  Arkansas. 
The  son  Alney,  who  is  the  author  of  the  sketch  to  which 
reference  is  herein  made,  lived  at  Middleton,  Tennessee. 
He  married  in  1845,  when  he  was  30  and  she  was  18  years 
of  age,  Martha  J.  Moore,  a  sister  of  Honorable  William 
R.  Moore,  of  Memphis,  Tennessee,  who  was  elected  to 
Congress  from  that  District  in  1882.  From  this  union 
were  born  several  sons,  including  Robert  Moore,  William 
Watkins,  Walter  Baxter,  and  four  daughters,  Fannie,  who 
married  L.  B.  Jarmon,  a  baptist  minister,  and  Sallie,  who 
married  H.  H.  Norman,  a  farmer,  and  Ella,  who  married 
W.  S.  Early  of  Nashville,  and  Lela  Vance,  all  of  whom 
lived  in  Tennessee. 

9.  William,  born  1778,  lived  and  died  in  Tennessee,  and 
was  buried  on  Snow  Creek,  in  Maury  County,  He  married 
and  had  three  sons,  Andrew,  William  and  Samuel,  the  first 
named  of  whom  lived  in  Nashville,  and  the  others  in  Mar- 
shall County,  Tennessee. 

10.  James,  born  1780,  and  lived  and  died  in  Hinds 
County,  Mississippi.  He  married  and  had  one  son.  Dr. 
Ephraim  McLean,  and  a  daughter,  Eliza  Hannah,  who 
married  and  lived  at  Hot  Springs,  Arkansas. 

11.  Robert,  born  1782,  at  Harrodsburg,  Kentucky.  He 
married  a  Miss  Wilson,  by  whom  he  had  five  children, 
three  sons  and  two  daughters.  The  eldest  son,  Robert,  was 
a  physician  in  Muhlenberg  County,  Kentucky ;  the  sons 
Edward  and  Alney  went  with  their  father  to  Mississippi 
and  settled  there.  The  daughter  Celia  married  Robert  Rus- 
sell, and  lived  in  Clarksville,  Tennessee.  The  other  daughter 
was  Eliza.^ 

Ephraim  McLean,  the  subject  of  this  division,  was  a 
magistrate  of  Rowan  County,  North  Carolina,  under  ap- 
pointment December  23,  1778.° 

He  has  been  accepted,  under  application  of  Gladys  Ewing 
(now    Mrs.    Abbot    Carson    Combes),    National    Number 

^Hist.    Sketch   of    McLean    Family    in    America,   supra. 
'North   Carolina   Colonial    Records,   Vol.   23,    p.    996. 


88  The  Ewing  Genealogy  wrrn  Cognate  Branches 

123437,  by  the  National  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  as  a  recognized  patriot  who,  with 
unfailing  loyalty,  rendered  material  aid  to  the  cause  of 
Independence — ■ 

(i)  "In  his  services  as  a  member  from  Rowan  County, 
North  Carolina,  of  the  Committee  of  Safety,  which,  in  con- 
junction with  the  Mecklenburg  Declaration  of  Indepen- 
dence, was  created  and  existed  as  an  aid  to  the  cause  of 
Independence,"  and 

(2)  "In  his  services  as  a  civil  officer,  being  a  member 
of  the  House  of  Commons,  of  the  General  Assembly  of 
North  Carolina,  from  Burke  County  (which  was  formed 
from  Rowan  County)  for  the  year  1778,  and  a  Senator 
from  Burke  County  for  the  years  1779  and  1780,  which 
was  promotive  of  the  cause  of  Independence.'" 

ELIZABETH    DAVIDSON 

wife  of  Ephraim  McLean,  was  bom  about  1743,  died  about 
1820;  married,  as  before  stated,  in  1761. 

The  Davidsons  came  to  Western  North  Carolina  from 
near  Philadelphia,  in  Pennsylvania,  probably  Lancaster 
County.  George  Davidson  was  the  father  of  General  Wil- 
liam Lee  Davidson,  born  in  Lancaster  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, 1746,  who  was  killed,  as  we  have  seen,  in  an  en- 
gagement with  Cornwallis  at  Cowan's  Ford  on  the  Catawba 
River,  February  i,  1781.'  Robert  Davidson,  of  Lancaster 
County,  Pennsylvania,  was  the  father  of  John  Davidson, 
born  December  15,  1735,  Major  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution,  and  a  signer  of  the  Mechlenburg  Declaration 
of  Independence,  who  married  Violet  Wilson,  daughter  of 
Samuel  \\''ilson.''  John  Davidson  (not  Major  John  David- 
son) was  the  father  of  Elizabeth  Davidson,  wife  of  Ephraim 
McLean  and  mother  of  Jane  McLean  (q.  v.),  and  of  Wil- 
liam Davidson,  Colonel  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  and 
he  was  also  probably  the  father  of  the  John  Davidson  who 
married  Nancy  Brevard,  and  of  the  Ephraim  Davidson 
who  married  Jane  Brevard.* 

George  Davidson,  father  of  General  William  Lee  David- 
son, and  Robert  Davidson,  father  of  Major  John  David- 
son,  and   John    Davidson,    father   of   Elizabeth   Davidson, 

nVheeler's  Hist,  of  North  Carolina,  Vol.  2,  pp.  368,  62;  Alney  McLean's 
Hist.    Sketch,    supra. 

nVheeler's    Hist,    of   North    Carolina,   Vol.    II,    pp.    232-3,   263-4. 

«Jd.,  Vol.  II,  p.  262;  Application  Madeline  Orr,  N.  S.  D.  A.  R.,  Nat. 
No.  66823. 

*Id.,  Vol.  II,  p.  238;  Alney  McLean's  Hist.  Sketch  of  the  McLean  Family 
in  America,   1750-1885. 


The  EwiiNG  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  89 

were  probably  brothers  as  they  all  appear  to  have  come 
from  near  Philadelphia,  the  near-by  county  of  Lancaster, 
in  Pennsylvania,  at  or  about  the  same  time,  1760,  with 
their  ages  corresponding  in  that  relationship,  and  the  estab- 
lished fact  that  General  William  Lee  Davidson  and  Colonel 
William  Davidson  were  cousins,  tends  to  confirm  this 
conclusion/ 

The  intermarriages  of  the  illustrious  Davidson  and  Bre- 
vard families  are  worthy  of  mention. 

There  were  eight  sons  and  four  daughters  in  the  family 
of  John  Brevard  and  his  wife,  who  was  a  Miss  McWhorter. 
Mary  Brevard,  the  eldest  daughter,  married  General  Wil- 
liam Lee  Davidson;  Nancy  Brevard  married  John  David- 
son, and  Jane  Brevard  married  Ephraim  Davidson,  these 
latter  two  husbands  being  probably  the  sons  of  John  David- 
son, the  father  of  Elizabeth  Davidson,  wife  of  Ephraim 
McLean.  It  may  be  remarked  that  the  fourth  Brevard 
daughter,  Rebecca,  married  a  Mr.  Jones,  and  moved  to 
Tennessee."  Alexander  Brevard,  one  of  the  eight  sons 
mentioned,  married  Sallie  Davidson,  a  daughter  of  Major 
John  Davidson.^ 

John  Brevard's  eight  sons,  to-wit:  Ephraim,  John,  Hugh, 
Adam,  Alexander,  Robert,  Benjamin  and  Joseph,  were  all 
soldiers  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  and  while  he,  John 
Brevard,  the  father,  was  too  old  to  serve  as  a  soldier,  he 
was  a  recognized  patriot,  who,  with  unfailing  loyalty,  rend- 
ered in  every  way  material  aid  to  the  cause  of  Independence, 
even  contributing  to  the  soldier  service  his  youngest  son, 
Joseph,  then  under  his  control  as  only  17  years  of  age;  and 
in  consequence  of  his  loyalty,  he  suffered  as  a  penalty  the 
burning  of  his  home  by  the  infuriated  Tories,  who  greatly 
hated  the  Brevard  family  on  account  of  its  united  and  ex- 
tensive support  of  the  Revolutionary  cause.* 

A  distinguished  branch  of  the  Davidson  family  sprang 
from  William  Davidson,  the  Colonel  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution,  who  was,  as  we  have  seen,  a  son  of  John 
Davidson,  the  father  of  Elizabeth  Davidson,  wife  of 
Ephraim  McLean. 

Colonel  William  Davidson  was  the  first  Representative 
from  Buncombe  County  in  the  North  Carolina  State  Senate ; 
he  was  the  father  of  William  Mitchell  Davidson,  of  Hay- 

'Arthur's    Western    North    Carolina,    pp.    151-152. 
-Wheeler's    Hist,    of    North    Carolina,   Vol.    II,    pp.   237,   238. 
'Id.,  Vol.   II,  p.  240. 
nVheeler's    Hist,    of    North   Carolina.    Vol.    II,   pp.    237-238 


90  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

wood  County,  North  Carolina,  who  was  born  January  2, 
1780,  died  in  Washington  County,  Texas,  May  31,  1846, 
married  January  10,  1804,  Elizabeth  Vance,  who  was  born 
March  23,  1787,  died  April  15,  1861,  she  being  the  daughter 
of  David  Vance,  of  Revolutionary  fame,  who  was  the 
father  of  David  Vance,  a  Captain  in  the  War  of  1812,  and 
grandfather  of  "the  great  war  Governor  and  Statesman  of 
the  old  North  State,"  Zebulon  Vance,  who  was  born  May 
13,  1830  and  died  April  14,  1894,  while  serving  as  United 
States  Senator  from  North  Carolina,  having  been  a  member 
of  Congress,  Captain  and  Colonel  in  the  Confederate  Army, 
and  Governor  of  the  State.' 

William  Mitchell  Davidson  had  a  son.  Colonel  Allen 
Turner  Davidson,  born  on  Jonathan's  Creek,  Haywood 
County,  North  Carolina,  May  9,  18 19,  and  died  at  Ashe- 
ville,  North  Carolina,  January  24,  1905.  He  was  a  promin- 
ent lawyer,  and  represented  his  section  in  the  Confederate 
Congress.  He  married,  1842,  Miss  Elizabeth  A.  Howell, 
and  children  of  the  marriage,  worthy  scions  of  a  noble 
lineage,  are.  Honorable  Theo.  E.  Davidson,  late  Attorney 
General  of  the  State  of  North  Carolina;  Wilbur  S.  David- 
son, President  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Beaumont, 
Texas;  and  Honorable  Robert  Vance  Davidson,  late  At- 
torney General  of  Texas. 


'Arthur's   Western   North   Carolina,   pp.   98-99,    151-52,   259,   645. 


EPHRAIM   MCLEAN  EWING 


CHAPTER  XV. 

EPHRAIM    MCLEAN    EWING,    SON   OF   ROBERT   AND   JANE 

(MCLEAN)    EWING;    HIS   ACHIEVEMENTS, 

MARRIAGE  AND   CHILDREN. 

EPHRAIM    MCLEAN    EWING 

son  of  General  Robert  Ewing  and  Jane  McLean  (q.  v.),  was 
born  December  4,  1789,  in  Davidson  County,  West  Ten- 
nessee; went  with  his  father  in  1792  to  Logan  County, 
Kentucky,  where  he  died  June  11,  i860,  being  interred 
there  in  Maple  Grove  Cemetery. 

He  was  prosecuting  attorney  of  Logan  County,  Judge 
Broadnax  presiding. 

He  was  a  Presidential  Elector  in  1821-1822,  and  again 
in  1832-1833. 

He  served  in  the  Kentucky  Legislature  during  the  years 
1 830- 1 832. 

He  was  commissioned  Justice  of  the  Court  of  Appeals 
of  Kentucky,  being  the  highest  court  of  the  State,  March 
5,  1835,*  and  in  the  spring  of  1843,  April  11,  he  was  ap- 
pointed Chief  Justice,"  and  served  in  that  capacity  until 
he  resigned,  which  was  in  the  spring  of  1847,  after  the 
autumn  term  of  1846.' 

In  1850,  March  4,  he  was  by  Governor  Crittenden  ap- 
pointed and  served  on  the  Commission  to  Codify  the  Laws 
of  Kentucky. 

The  Biographical  Encyclopedia  of  Kentucky,  recounting 
his  achievements,  refers  to  him  as  "the  son  of  General 
Robert  Ewing,  a  distinguished  Revolutionary  soldier,"  and 
continues : 

"He  received  a  fine  literary  education  and  was  trained 
in  the  law  at  Transylvania  University ;  he  lived  at  Russell- 
ville,  Kentucky,  where  he  became  one  of  the  most  able 
lawyers  and  distinguished  men  of  the  State ;  he  was  ex* 
ceptionally  successful  and  popular,  and  managed  to  ac- 
cumulate a  large  fortune ;  he  was  a  man  of  finely  balanced 
mind,  solid  judgment  and  of  noble  sentiments  and  great 
liberality  of  heart ;  his  conscientious  convictions  led  him  to 
free  his  slaves  and  start  them  well  in  life  for  themselves. 
In  his  will,  he  left  a  handsome  bequest  to  Bethel  College, 
at  Russellville,  and  Cumberland  University,  at  Lebanon, 
Tennessee;  he  was  a  learned  and  able  lawyer,  and  one  of 


'3  Dana  (Ky.)   Repts.,  p.  8. 
^3  B  Monroe  (Ky.),  389. 
•7   B.    Monroe   (Ky.),   246. 


(91) 


92  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Beanches 

the  most  just,  upright  and  valuable  men  who  have  lived  in 
Southern  Kentucky.  He  married  the  brilliant  and  accom- 
plished Jane  Mclntyre,"  etc. 

He  married  in  Logan  County,  Kentucky,  September  8, 
1 82 1,  Jane  Pope  Mclntyre,  of  Elizabethtown,  Hardin 
County,  Kentucky.  Three  sons  were  born  of  this  marriage, 
Presley  Underwood,*  born  September  i,  1822,  Fayette 
Clay,  born  March  4,  1824,  and  Henry  Quincy,  born  August 
15,  1826,  besides  a  son,  born  September  5,  1830,  who  died 
January  16,  1831. 

I.  PRESLEY  UNDERWOOD,  the  cldcst  SOU,  was  graduated 
at  Center  College  in  Danville,  Kentucky,  in  1840;  studied 
law  with  his  father,  then  Chief  Justice  of  State,  and  was 
graduated  from  the  law  department  of  Transylvania  Uni- 
versity, at  Lexington,  Kentucky,  in  1842;  then  went  on  an 
European  tour,  and  upon  his  return,  in  1848,  was  elected 
to  the  Kentucky  Legislature,  and  served  in  1848-9.  In 
185 1,  he  was  elected  to  the  United  States  Congress  over  a 
worthy  and  popular  opponent,  Beverly  L.  Clark,  and  was 
re-elected  in  1853  without  opposition.  He  died,  unmarried, 
at  Mammoth  Cave,  Kentucky,  on  September  27,  1854,  of 
cholera,  and  was  buried  in  Logan  County,  Kentucky.'  The 
Biographical  Encyclopedia  of  Kentucky  says  of  him : 

"He  was  the  eldest  son  of  the  distinguished  Judge  E.  M. 
Ewing,  of  the  same  town  (Russellville),  and  Jane  P.  Mc- 
lntyre, one  of  the  most  brilliant  and  accomplished  women 
of  her  time.  He  was  the  opponent  in  politics  of  John  C. 
Breckenridge,  and  served  in  the  Legislature  several  times 
with  him — both  equally  brilliant  and  commanding  in  ap- 
pearance, equally  handsome  and  chivalrous,  and  both  equal- 
ly matchless  in  their  oratory;  he  possessed  traits  of  charac- 
ter to  a  remarkable  degree  of  both  his  parents ;  like  his 
father,  learned  and  brilliant;  and  like  his  mother,  gentle, 
vivacious,  and  fond  of  society,  in  which  he  was  a  natural 
leader;  the  evening  before  his  death  he  was  surrounded  by 
a  charming  circle  of  friends,  who  were  entranced  by  the 
sweet  strains  he  was  drawing  from  a  violin,  of  which  in- 
strument he  was  master;  his  untimely  demise  was  sincerely 
mourned  by  his  large  acquaintance,  among  them  a  beauti- 
ful and  accomplished  young  lady  of  Cincinnati,  to  whom  it 
was  said  he  was  engaged  to  be  married ;  on  his  tomb,  the 

*This    middle    name    was    complimentary    to    Chief    Justice    Ewing's    asso- 
ciate  on    the    Bench,   Justice   Underwood    (vide,    Ky.    Reports    above    cited). 
^Biographical    Ency.   of   Ky.,    sub   nom. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  93 

words  'Died  ere  his  prime,'  are  a  touching  tribute  to  his 
memory." 

George  D.  Prentice,  the  great  editor  of  the  Louisville 
Courier-Journal,  editorially  referred  to  him  in  that  paper  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  as  follows : 

"Thus  has  perished  in  the  pride  of  early  manhood  one  of 
the  most  brilliant  young  men  of  our  State,  He  was  a  wit, 
a  scholar,  a  politician,  an  orator,  a  man  of  genius  and  a 
statesman.  Though  young,  he  had  won  a  distinguished 
position  in  Congress.  He  did  not  speak  often  in  that  body, 
but  every  speech  added  to  his  reputation.  If  his  life  had 
been  spared,  he  would  have  placed  himself  high  among  the 
ablest  and  most  useful  men  of  the  nation. 

"The  death  of  Mr.  Ewing  is  a  public  calamity,  but  it 
will  carry  peculiar  affliction  to  the  hearts  of  many  who 
knew  him  personally.  He  was  the  soul  of  every  society 
in  which  he  mingled.  There  are  thousands  who  will  cherish 
his  memory,  for  'none  knew  him  but  to  love  him.'" 

2.  FAYETTE  CLAY,    (q.  V.). 

3.  HENRY  QUINCY,  the  third  son,  who  died  January  5, 
1858,  was  a  lawyer  of  great  promise,  and  lived  and  died 
at  Russellville;  he  was  an  ardent  lover  of  Shakespeare,  and 
possessed  of  marked  histrionic  ability.  He  never  married. 
It  is  said  that,  on  an  occasion,  his  father  sent  him  to  Chicago 
to  look  into  a  title  he  was  buying,  in  preference  to  Presley, 
who  was  four  years  older,  appraising  him  as  the  safer  law- 
yer of  the  two,  though  Presley  was  undoubtedly  more 
brilliant. 

The  "Ewing  Lot"  in  Maple  Grove  Cemetery,  at  Russell- 
ville, Kentucky,  besides  dates  of  births  and  deaths  on  separ- 
ate slabs,  shows  these  inscriptions : 

"Hon.  Presley  Ewing,  Elected  to  the  Kentucky 
Legislature  August  1848.  Re-electced  August, 
1849.  Elected  to  U.  S.  Congress  August,  1851. 
Re-elected  August  1853.     Died  ere  his  prime." 

"Jane  Pope  Ewing,  a  wife,  a  mother,  a  Chris- 
tian.    She  is  not  dead  but  sleeping." 

JANE  POPE    (mCINTYRE)    EWING 

wife  of  Ephraim  M.  Ewing,  is  described  in  every  contempo- 
raneous reference  to  her  as  one  of  the  most  brilliant  and 
accomplished    women    of    her    time.      This    consensus    of 
encomium  leaves  no  doubt  of  her  intellectual  superiority. 
She  was  also  an  inspiring  wife,  a  devoted  mother,  and 


94  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

possessed  of  the  Christian  graces,   as  attested  by  the  in- 
scription on  her  tombstone. 

She  was  born  in  Hardin  County,  Kentucky,  October  30, 
1795,  and  died  in  Logan  County,  Kentucky,  August  26, 
1851,  where  she  was  buried  in  Maple  Grove  Cemetery,  at 
Russellville. 


DR.  FAYETTE  CLAY  EWING 


CHAPTER  XVI. 

DR.    FAYETTE    CLAY    EWING,    SON    OF    EPHRAIM    MCLEAN    AND 

JANE   (mCINTYRE)    EWING;  his  CAREER,  MARRIAGE  AND 

DESCENDANTS. 

FAYETTE   CLAY   EWING 

was  the  second  son  of  Ephraim  M.  Ewing  and  Jane  P. 
Mclntyre;  he  was  born  in  Logan  County,  March  4,  1824; 
studied  medicine  under  his  uncle,  Dr.  James  Butler  Bowl- 
ing, at  Adairville,  in  that  county,  and  later  was  graduated 
in  medicine  and  surgery ;  he  then  in  early  life  went  South, 
and  settled  in  Thibodaux,  Louisiana,  Lafourche  Parish,  a 
rich  sugar  section,  and  soon  enjoyed  a  lucrative  practice 
in  his  profession,  in  which  he  became  distinguished,  both  in 
medicine  and  surgery,  notably  in  the  treatment  of  yellow 
fever,  cholera,  and  the  malignant  type  of  typhoid  fever 
often  prevalent  in  that  section. 

He  was  army  surgeon  of  recognized  superior  capacity 
in  the  Civil  War  (C.  S.  A.),  and  was  specially  esteemed 
in  his  profession  as  a  remarkable  diagnostician,  quick  and 
accurate,  and  equally  ready  of  execution — it  was  with  him 
in  life,  one  to  decide  and  to  do. 

He  married,  in  Assumption  Parish,  Louisiana,  on  Febru- 
ary 3,  1852,  Eliza  Josephine  Kittredge,  the  handsome  and 
accomplished  daughter  of  Dr.  Ebenezer  Eaton  Kittredge 
and  his  wife,  Martha  Wills  Green,  at  "Elm  Hall,"  the 
luxurious  home  where  she  was  bom  August  3,  1833.  At 
this  wedding,  which  was  a  brilliant  function,  the  Rt.  Rev. 
Leonidas  Polk,  then  Episcopal  Bishop  of  Louisiana,  and 
afterwards  General  in  the  Confederate  Army,  officiated. 

Dr.  Ewing  was  an  ardent  democrat,  particularly  during 
the  period  of  reconstruction,  and  was  always  a  generous 
compaign  supporter. 

He  acquired  a  large  estate,  consisting  of  three  very  valu- 
able sugar  plantations,  in  Lafourche  Parish,  Louisiana, 
bearing  the  names,  "Raceland,"  "Ariel,"  and  "Melodia,"  the 
last  of  which  he  purchased  from  a  sale  of  Chicago  property 
which  his  father.  Judge  E.  M.  Ewing  (q.  v.),  shortly  be- 
fore dying,  had  given  him  while  he  was  on  a  visit  to  the 
parential  home  at  Russellville,  Kentucky;  and  during  the 
same  visit,  his  father  also  gave  him  the  family  silver,  in- 
cluding a  massive  sterling  silver  tea  set,  now  owned  by  his 
son,  Presley  Kittredge  (q.  v.). 
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9G  The  Ewinq  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

Dr.  Ewing  died  at  his  plantation  home,  "Ariel,"  May  31, 
1872,  and  was  buried  in  St.  John's  (Episcopal)  Cemetery, 
Thibodaux,  Louisiana. 

His  was  a  life,  apart  from  his  successful  worldly  career, 
overflowing  with  nobility  of  soul,  with  charity  for  the  fail- 
ing, with  kindness  for  the  suffering,  and  at  all  times  merci- 
ful ;  and  he  was  as  man  and  physician,  with  every  society  in 
which  he  mingled,  the  fascination  and  attraction  of  all. 

He  was  tenacious  of  his  positions,  which  he  regarded  as 
based  on  the  just  and  right — as  firm  as  adamant  with  the 
outer  world,  but  with  the  inner  circle  of  home,  yielding  as 
the  marble,  tenderly  twining  as  the  vine !  The  inscription 
on  his  tomb — 

"The  Beloved  Physician" 
attests  the  beauty  of  his  life  in  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Ewing's  marriage  with  Eliza  Josephine 
Kittredge : 

I.  LEILA  WILLS,  bom  at  "Elm  Hall,"  September  7,  1851, 
and  graduated,  with  first  honor,  from  Locquet  Institute,  in 
New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  1873 ;  she  was  married  at  "Ariel," 
Lafourche  Parish,  Louisiana,  January  24,  1878,  to  the  Rev. 
Shepard  Halsey  Werlein,  B.  A.,  D.  D.,  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  born  in  that  city  June  23,  1851,  s.  of  Philip 
Peter  Werlein  and  his  wife,  Margaret  Halsey.     Issue : 

(i)  Halsey  Werlein,  Junior,  an  Episcopal  minister,  of 
fine  pulpit  oratory  and  engaging  presence,  late  of  San  Jose, 
California,  born  November  i,  1878;  he  is  a  graduate  of 
Vanderbilt  University,  Nashville,  Tennessee;  Harvard  Uni- 
versity, Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  and  in  theology,  of  the 
University  of  the  South,  Sewanee,  Tennessee,  and  has  had 
conferred  upon  him  the  degrees,  B.  A.,  M.  A.,  from  Van- 
derbilt; M.  A.  from  Harvard,  and  B.  D.  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  the  South.  He  married  November  22,  1905,  Sarah 
Elizabeth  Reynolds,  born  July  27,  1885,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Dudley  S.  and  Mattie  (Bruce)  Reynolds.  Children:  Sarah 
Elizabeth,  bom  at  Jackson,  Mississippi,  August  22,  1909, 
and  Mathilde  Bruce,  born  at  San  Jose,  California,  April 
7,  1912. 

(2)  Wilmer,  born  and  died  in  Houston,  Texas,  January 
31,  1881. 

(3)  Quincy,  now  rapidly  advancing  in  the  United  States 
Government  service,  Washington,  District  of  Columbia, 
born  December  14,  1886;  married  June  23,  1914,  in  Phila- 
delphia,  Pennsylvania,  where  the  bride  was  visiting  rela- 


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tives,  Miss  Margaret  Reid,  of  Amite,  Louisiana,  born 
August  2,  1892,  daughter  of  Judge  Robert  R.  Reid,  of  that 
city.  Child:  Leila  Margaret,  born  February  i,  1917, 
Washington,  District  of  Columbia. 

(4)  Ewing,  born  August  4,  1889,  a  lawyer  of  recognized 
ability  in  Houston,  Texas,  having  the  degrees,  B.  S.  and 
LL.  B.,  from  Tulane  University,  New  Orleans,  Louisiana; 
he  promptly  volunteered  on  war  being  declared  against 
Germany,  went  into  the  officers'  training  camp  at  Leon 
Springs,  near  San  Antonio,  Texas,  and  after  three  months' 
training,  without  previous  military  experience,  was  on 
August  15,  191 7,  commissioned  as  Captain  of  the  U.  S.  A. 
(Reserve),  and  went  into  active  service  as  such  officer, 
where  he  remained  until  honorably  discharged  at  the  end 
of  the  war.  He  acquitted  himself  throughout  with  distin- 
guished ability,  serving  as  adjutant  of  the  Third  Officers' 
Training  School,  Camp  Kearny,  California,  and  being  com- 
mended in  terms  of  great  praise  by  the  commanding  Gen- 
eral of  his  division  for  his  skilful  and  efficient  services, 
with  direction  that  the  commendation  be  placed  to  the  credit 
of  his  army  record.  He  also  served  as  Company  Com- 
mander in  the  Fourth  Officers'  Training  School,  Camp  Fre- 
mont, California,  as  Assistant  Adjutant  of  the  Eighth 
(Regular  Army)  Division,  and  as  Adjutant  of  the  115th 
Ammunition  Train. 

(5)  Presley  Ewing,  a  physician  and  surgeon,  of  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  having  the  degree,  M.  D.  He  was 
born  September  i,  1891 ;  married  July  21,  1915,  Sarah 
Richard,  born  August  13,  1891.  One  child:  Presley 
Ewing,  born  San  Jose,  California,  May  8,  1916.  He  en- 
listed as  a  volunteer  in  the  war  with  Germany,  was  com- 
missioned as  lieutenant  to  the  Medical  Corps,  assigned  to 
Nose,  Throat  and  Ear  Department ;  first  served  at  the  Base 
Hospital,  Camp  Dodge,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  later  serving 
with  the  American  Expeditionary  Forces,  France  and  the 
U.  S.  Army  of  occupation  at  Coblenz,  Germany. 

(6)  Philip  Prentiss,  born  May  7,  1893,  has  degree  B. 
A.  from  Tulane  University;  was  a  student  for  three  years 
at  Oxford,  England,  under  a  Cecil  Rhodes  scholarship,  then 
returned  to  enter  the  U.  S.  A.  in  the  war  with  Germany,  in 
which  he  served  under  commission  as  lieutenant. 

2.  IDA  MAY,  born  at  Thibodaux,  Louisiana,  August  6, 
1858;  died  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  December  21.  1918; 
she   was    graduated    with    first    honor    from    the   Virginia 


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married  October  21,  1885,  in  Washington,  District  of 
Columbia,  Martha  Mac  Donald,  of  that  city,  born  1862, 
daughter  of  James  Whitsitt  Mac  Donald,  who  was  a  Con- 
federate soldier,  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Magdalen  Cooper, 
daughter  of  Douglas  H.  Cooper,  who  was  an  officer  of  the 
United  States  Army  in  the  war  with  Mexico  in  1848. 

In  the  war  with  Germany,  Dr.  Ewing  served  with  the 
Medical  Corps,  Nose,  Throat  and  Ear  Department,  at 
Camp  Beauregard,  Louisiana,  with  several  assistants;  he 
was  at  first  commissioned  as  Captain,  later  as  Major. 

The  issue  of  the  marriage  of  Dr.  Ewing  and  his  wife, 
Martha  MacDonald : 

(i)  Fayette  Clay,  born  May  18,  1887;  married  May  14, 
191 3,  Fairfax  Cary,  of  Memphis,  Tennessee,  daughter  of 
Hunsdon  Cary,  and  died  at  Sewanee,  Tennessee, 
without  issue,  November  28,  1914,  in  the  flower  of  his 
youth,  while  success  and  honor  were  widening  for  him. 

The  following  excerpts  from  the  resolutions  adopted  at 
the  joint  meetings  of  the  "Faculties  of  the  University  of 
the  South,"  December  i,  1914,  tell  the  story  of  his  too  brief 
life: 

"The  sudden  death  of  Professor  Ewing  at  Sewanee,  Nov- 
ember 28,  1914,  came  as  a  shock  to  his  colleagues  in  tl.ie 
Faculties  of  the  University  of  the  South.  *  *  *  Mr.  Ewing 
came  of  good  stock,  of  a  fine  old  Southern  family  distin- 
guished for  intellectual  ability,  as  well  as  for  learning  and 
culture.  His  gifts  were,  doubtless,  partly  hereditary,  but  he 
had  begun  to  make  the  most  of  them. 

"He  received  his  academic  training  in  part  at  Sewanee, 
and  then  went  to  the  University  of  Virginia,  where  he 
graduated  in  June,  1910,  with  the  degree  of  Civil  Engineer. 
Soon  after  his  graduation,  he  secured  a  position  in  the  Con- 
struction Department  of  the  Frisco  Lines,  where  he  served 
about  two  years,  and  was  rapidly  promoted,  becoming  a 
Resident  Engineer.  In  June,  1912,  he  was  appointed  Resi- 
dent Engineer  with  the  Vandalia  Railroad  (Pennsylvania 
Lines).  In  May,  1914,  he  became  Associate  Professor  of 
Civil  Engineering  in  the  University  of  the  South.  *  *  *  In 
May,  1913,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Fairfax  Cary,  of  Mem- 
phis, Tennessee,  a  most  worthy  daughter  of  one  of  the  oldest 
historic  families  of  Virginia." 

We  may  add  that  on  April  24,  191 1,  as  though  premoni- 
tory of  his  death   (which  was  from  sudden  heart  failure), 


100  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

he  wrote  for  the  Sewanee  Purple  a  poem,  the  last  stanza  of 
which  follows : 

"Nowhere  is  there  a  spot  so  fair 

As  at  Sewanee; 
For  earth  and  sky  are  blended  there, 

Down  at  Sewanee ; 
And  when  life's  twilight  falls  for  me, 
I  trust  it  will  my  future  be 
To  rest  beneath  some  shelt'ring  tree 

In  old  Sewanee." 

He  was  buried  in  the  beautiful  forest  cemetery  at  "old 
Sewanee." 

(2)  Ephraim  Mac  Donald,  now  of  New  Orleans,  Lou- 
isiana, born  September  18,  1889;  married  March,  1914,  his 
cousin,  Olivia  Munson  (daughter  of  E.  P.  Munson  and  his 
wife,  Nellie  Jones),  born  at  "Glenwood,"  1882.  Child: 
Olivia  Munson,   born   in   New  York   City,   December  28, 

1915- 

He  has  taken  the  degrees,  A.  B.,  M.  A.,  Sc.  D.,  and  M.  D., 
and  has  thus  early  in  life  filled  the  position  of  Associate 
Professor  of  Physiology  in  the  University  of  New  York  and 
Bellevue  Medical  College,  and  also  that  of  Acting  Professor 
in  charge  of  the  Department  of  Physiology  in  Fordham  Uni- 
versity Medical  College,  New  York,  during  1914-1915,  in 
the  absence  of  Professor  Knaur,  who  went  to  the  European 
war;  and,  in  addition  to  the  above,  he  has  been  quoted  as 
authority  on  the  physiology  of  the  heart,  three  times  in 
Stewart's  Text  Book  of  Physiology,  7th  edition,  a  standard 
work;  and  in  the  last  edition  of  Green's  Farmacology,  like- 
wise a  standard  work,  reference  is  made  to  his  original 
research  work,  when  twenty  years  of  age,  at  the  University 
of  Missouri. 

(3)Presley  Kittredge,  born  July  11,  1891 ;  married  at 
"Glenwood,"  June  11,  191 1,  his  consin,  Mrytle  Munson 
(daughter  of  E.  P.  Munson  and  his  wife,  Nellie  Jones), 
born  December  21,  1889;  he  is  now  a  journalist,  in  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  having  formerly  been  manager  and 
editor-in-chief  of  the  Hamilton  Press,  in  Hamilton,  Illinois. 
Children : 

1ST.     MYRTLE  MUNSON,  bom  March  15,  1912. 

2ND.       PRESLEY    KITTREDGE,    born   AugUSt    13,    I9I4. 

3RD.     FAYETTE  CLAY,  bom  Novcmbcr  5,  191 5. 


Ill 


REV.  QUINCY  EWING 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  BranchEvS  101 

(4)  Donald  MacDonald,  a  journalist,  born  April  11, 
1895;  was  a  student  at  the  University  of  Missouri,  and 
there  gave  fair  promise,  in  view  of  remarkably  good  work 
as  business  manager  and  editor  on  the  University  publica- 
tion, the  Daily  Missourian,  of  success  in  his  chosen  vocation. 

After  exhausting  every  effort  to  enlist  for  fighting  service 
in  the  war  with  Germany,  failing  to  get  in  on  account  of  a 
foot  ball  accident,  he  secured  a  position  and  served  as 
photographer  in  the  Aviation  Corps. 

5.  JESSIE  ALINE  ("Maggie"),  born  in  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  May  18,  1864;  died  October  18,  1900,  in  Lou- 
isiana, near  Patterson,  where  she  was  buried;  she  was 
married  at  "Ariel,"  December  23,  1880,  to  Charles  E.  Gillis, 
a  sugar  planter  of  Lafourche  Parish,  Louisiana.     Issue : 

(i)  Ewing,  born  March  9,  1888;  married  at  Gulfport, 
Mississippi,  September  18,  1917,  Martha  Brown,  bom 
November  21,  1899.  He  volunteered  promptly  for  service 
in  the  War  with  Germany,  first  serving  as  Second  Lieuten- 
ant, then  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant,  and  later  promoted 
to  the  office  of  Captain. 

(2)  Wallace,  born  January  21,  1890;  he  also  volun- 
teered for  service  in  the  war  just  mentioned,  was  not  ac- 
cepted, but  was  later  drafted  into  service. 

(3)  Gary,  born  March  17,  1893;  he  as  a  volunteer 
joined  the  U.  S.  Marines  in  the  beginning  of  the  war,  went 
across,  and  was  in  gallant  serv'ice  until  the  close  of 
hostilities,  having  been  in  the  engagements  with  the  enemy 
in  the  Sectors  Champagne  (Blanc  Mont),  Argonne,  St. 
Mihiel,  Verdun,  Toulon,  Marbache,  Soissons,  and  Chateau- 
Thierry,  and  participated  in  the  march  to  the  Rhine  for 
the  occupation  of  the  Coblenz  Bridgehead. 

(4)  Aline,  born  January  26,  1896;  died  and  buried  in 
New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  September  14,  1912. 

6.  QUINCY,  Episcopal  minister  and  writer  of  renown, 
also  successful  farmer,  postoffice,  Napoleonville,  Louisiana; 
born  at  "Ariel,"  January  11,  1867;  was  educated  in  the 
academic  and  theological  courses,  University  of  the  South, 
Sewanee,  Tennessee;  assistant  minister  Trinity  Cathedral, 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  1890-1891 ;  Dean  Christ  Church  Cathedral, 
New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  1891-1893;  Rector  St.  James 
Church,  Greenville,  Mississippi,  1895-1903,  and  of  Church 
of  the  Advent,  Birmingham,  Alabama,  1903-1906,  and  of 
Christ     Church,     Napoleonville,     since     1906;     author     of 


102  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

"Education,"  "The  Heart  of  the  Race  Problem,"  "The 
Higher  Education,"  and  other  treatises.' 

He  married  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  August  2.2, 
1895,  Mary  Carter  (Bower)  Hart,  a  widow  of  that  city, 
daughter  of  E.  L,  Bower,  who  was  a  Major  in  the  Con- 
federate Army;  she  is  a  cultured  and  highly  educated  wo- 
man, a  descendant  on  her  maternal  side  of  the  distinguished 
Carter  family,  of  Virginia,  who  owned  "Shirley,"  a  beauti- 
ful and  picturesque  home-site,  located  about  the  point  where 
the  Appomattox  enters  the  James,  in  Charles  City  County, 
which  in  1723  became  the  home  of  John  Carter,  eldest  son 
of  Robert  Carter.  It  stands,  as  has  been  well  said,  "four- 
square to  the  world,  three  stories  high,  in  the  midst  of  a 
lawn  shaded  by  giant  oaks."" 

The  issue  of  this  marriage : 

(i)  Enid,  born  August  8,  1896,  very  brilliant  and  ac- 
complished; she  was  graduated  from  the  University  of 
Louisiana,  Baton  Rouge,  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  with 
first  honor,  before  she  was  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  was 
shortly  after  awarded  the  position,  at  Baton  Rouge,  of 
Directress  of  Organized  Charities,  a  position  she  filled 
with  marked  ability  until  her  resignation,  to  enter  Tulane 
University,  to  fit  herself  for  a  higher  order  of  work.  Later 
she  performed  service  of  importance  with  the  Red  Cross  in 
the  war  with  Germany.  She  is  a  member  of  the  National 
Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  with 
five  ancestral  bars.  She  was  married  July  14,  1919,  at 
Christ  Church  Chapel,  New  Orleans,  to  Edward  Austin 
Cary  of  Port  Arthur,  Texas.  He  served  as  a  Lieutenant 
with  the  U.  S.  Aviation  Corps,  in  the  War  with  Germany. 

(2)  Quincy,  junior,  born  February  6,  1903,  a  graduate 
of  the  High  School,  Napoleonville,  Louisiana,  where  he 
gave  evidence  of  a  sharp  and  incisive  intellect,  and  evinced 
qualities  of  leadership  and  aptitude  for  public  speaking;  he 
was  winner  in  the  State  Spelling  Test  of  March  29  and  30, 
191 7,  and  is  now  a  student  of  Tulane  University,  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana. 

7.  Kate  Adelaide,  a  beautiful  blonde,  born  at  "Ariel," 
November  16,  1870;  died  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  of 
pneumonia,  February  5,  1884.  She  had  at  her  early  age 
written  a  story  that  was  published  in  the  Donaldsonville 
Chief,  thus  commended  by  the  managing  editor: 

'Who's  Who  in  America,  1912-13. 

'^Lancaster's   Hist.    Va.    Homes   and   Churches,   pp.   98-104. 


ELIZA  JOSEPHINE  (KITTREDGE)  EWING 


CH.    XVI 

120 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cogxate  Branches  103 

"The  composition  is  very  creditable  for  one  so  young, 
and  gives  promise  of  future  achievements  of  a  brilliant 
character." 

ELIZA  JOSEPHINE    (kITTREDGE)    EWING 

the  wife  of  Dr.  Fayette  Clay  Ewing,  senior,  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Ebenezer  Eaton  Kittredge  and  his  wife,  Martha 
Wills  Green,  and  reference  is  made  for  her  Kittredge  and 
Green  ancestry  to  the  cognate  branches  to  follow. 

She  was  born  at  "Elm  Hall,"  Assumption  Parish,  Lou- 
isiana, on  August  3,  1833,  and  married  on  February  3, 
1852;  she  was  highly  educated  and  a  gifted  musician,  played 
the  piano  with  great  proficiency,  having  a  remarkable 
touch ;  she  spoke  English  and  French  with  equal  erudition 
and  fluency.  After  her  graduation,  she  traveled  extensively 
with  her  father  through  the  East,  incidentally  visithig  his 
relatives  in  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

She  was  no  ordinary  woman — commanding  and  hand- 
some in  appearance,  of  superior  endowments  and  high  cul- 
ture, courageous  and  strong  of  purpose,  she  went  about 
daily  doing  her  duty  as  she  saw  it,  brooking  no  opposition 
in  its  performance;  and  until  the  last,  in  her  eighty-first 
year,  clear  of  mind  and  thought,  and  in  close  sympathy 
with  the  ebb  and  flow  of  life  and  the  progress  of  things,  she 
preserved  what  in  all  vicissitudes  had  been  characteristic 
of  her,  a  never-failing  indomitable  spirit,  the  same  as  that 
which  Lord  Lytton  immortalized  as  present  to  the  end  in 
the  unconquered  and  unconquerable  Armand  Richelieu. 

It  was  a  leading  thought  with  her  to  have  her  three  sons 
a  lawyer,  a  physician  and  a  minister,  and  having  moulded 
their  ambitions  to  that  end,  she  derived  great  pleasure  from 
the  fact  that  her  hope  was  realized,  and  that  each  was  dis- 
tinguished enough  in  his  profession  to  appear  in  "Who's 
Who  in  America,"  among  the  leading  men  of  the  Nation. 

Withal  the. tributes  paid  to  her  husband's  mother,  Jane 
Pope  Mclntyre,  as  besides  brilliant  and  accomplished,  "a 
wife,  a  mother,  a  Christian,"  would  equally  apply  to  her. 
She  loved  her  husband  with  a  worshipful  and  almost 
idolatrous  devotion,  regarding  him  always,  like  an  English- 
man traditionally  does  his  King,  as  one  who  can  do  no 
wrong;  tov/ards  her  children,  her  love  was  one  continuous 
illumination  of  motherly  sacrifice  or  willingness  to  sacrifice, 
never  dimming,  never  waning.  She  was  a  confirmed  mem- 
ber of  the  Episcopal   Church,  and   from  her  religion,  ex- 


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emplified  in  many  kindly  acts,  light  and  comfort  came  to 
her. 

After  her  husband's  death,  in  1872,  she  managed  the 
estate,  and  completed  the  education  of  their  children;  later 
she  lived  at  her  home,  "Idlewild,"*  an  attractive  cottage  in 
a  yard  banked  with  flowers,  at  Sewanee,  Tennessee,  the 
Alma  Mater  of  her  youngest  son,  Quincy  (q.  v.),  whence 
during  each  winter  she  would  visit  her  children  in  the 
South ;  and  on  one  of  these  perennial  visits,  March  29, 
1914,  at  New  Orleans,  where  her  two  eldest  daughters  re- 
sided, she  fell  asleep  in  death,  and  was  buried  beside  her 
husband  in  vSt.  John's  Episcopal  Cemetery,  Thibodaux, 
Louisiana.  The  tombstone  inscription  to  her  is  a  fitting 
memorial : 

"Her  life 
'Pure  in  its  purpose  and  strong  in  its  strife.'" 


*Tlie  cottage   remains  in   the   family,  being  the   summer  home  of  her   son, 
Presley    Kittredge    Ewing    (q.    v.)- 


^itttBiiig^B 


CHAPTER  XVII. 

THE    KITTREDGE    TREE:    PATERNAL    LINEAGE    OF    ELIZA 

JOSEPHINE    KITTREDGE,    WIFE    OF    DR.    FAYETTE 

CLAY    EWING. 

The  Kittredge  family  is  noted  for  its  numerous  and  dis- 
tinguished physicians  and  surgeons,  extending  back  through 
each  generation,  and  particularly  is  this  true  of  the  family 
in  the  New  England  States.  In  James  Thacher's  "Medical 
Biography  and  Memoirs  of  Eminent  Physicians  Who  Have 
Flourished  in  America"  (published  in  Boston  in  1823),  re- 
ferring to  Thomas  Kittredge,  M.  D.,  M.  M.  S.  S.,  as  "a  dis- 
tinguished practitioner  of  surgery  and  medicine  throughout 
the  State  of  Massachusetts,"  it  is  said : 

"The  family  of  which  he  was  a  member  has  become  so 
distinguished  for  surgical  skill  in  New  England,  that  in 
many  places  the  name  alone  is  a  passport  to  practice,  and 
the  number  of  practitioners  of  the  name  is  very 
considerable." 

Doctor  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes'  portrayal  of  Dr.  Kitt- 
redge, in  "Elsie  Venner,"  as  the  leading  and  gifted  physi- 
cian in  the  town  in  which  he  lived,  was  the  recognition  from 
a  high  source  of  the  name  as  appropriate  for  one  illustrat- 
ing the  ideals  of  the  noble  profession. 

The  achievements  of  the  Kittredges,  however,  have  not 
been  confined  to  medicine  and  surgery,  but  many  of  the 
family  have  become  distinguished  in  other  pursuits,  among 
whom  we  mention  a  few,  all  descended  from  John  Kitt- 
redge, the  English  emigrant  who  shared  in  the  founding 
of  Billerica,  Massachusetts. 

Abbott  E.  Kittredge,  born  at  Roxbury,  Massachusetts, 
July  20,  1834,  was  graduated  from  Williams  College,  and 
became  a  famous  clergyman,  being  at  one  time  president 
of  the  General  Synod  of  the  Reformed  Church  in  America; 
he  died  December  17,   1912.' 

Alfred  B.  Kittredge,  born  Cheshire  County,  New  Hamp- 
shire, March  26,  1861,  was  graduated  from  Yale;  removed 
to  Sioux  Falls,  and  after  practicing  law  there,  and  holding 
other  important  offices,  was  elected  and  served  as  United 
States   Senator    from    South   Dakota,    1901-1909;    he   died 

'Who's    Who    in   America,    (1903-1905). 
"Who's    Who    in    America,    1912-1913. 

10.5 


106  The  Ewino  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

George  Lyman  Kittredge,  of  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
graduated  from  Harvard  (A,  B.)  and  University  of  Chi- 
cago (LL.D.),  is  Professor  of  Enghsh  at  Harvard,  Fellow 
of  American  Academy  Arts  &  Sciences,  and  author  of  The 
Mother  Tongue  (with  Sarah  Louise  Arnold),  Words  and 
Their  Ways  in  English  Speech  (with  late  James  K. 
Greenough),  and  Old  Farmer  and  his  Almanack  (1905).' 

Henry  Grattan  Kittredge,  born  at  Claremont,  New 
Hampshire,  January  22,  1845;  son  of  Thomas  B.  Kittredge, 
of  Keene,  New  Hampshire ;  descendant  of  Dr.  Francis  Kitt- 
redge, surgeon  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution  (q.  v.),  was 
educated  at  Trinity  College ;  married  Worcester,  Massa- 
chusetts, October  12,  1870,  Martha  S.  Hodges;  he  was  (in 
addition  to  other  distinctions)  a  specialist  in  industrial 
journalism,  a  famous  organizer  of  textile  exhibits,  well 
known  as  a  writer  and  expert  on  textiles  in  the  United 
States  and  England,  and  author  of  Utilization  of  Wastes 
and  By-Products.    He  died  June  5,  1909.' 

Walter  Kittredge,  born  at  Merrimac,  New  Hampshire, 
October  8,  1834;  son  of  Eri  and  Lucretia  Kittredge, 
graduated  from  Merrimac  Normal  Institute;  married  in 
1861,  Annie  E.  Fairfield,  of  New  Boston,  New  Hampshire; 
was  after  1856  until  his  death,  1905,  a  song  composer,  writ- 
ing words  and  music  of  many  songs  and  giving  concerts, 
singing  his  own  songs,  including  "Tenting  on  the  Old  Camp 
Ground,"  and  "Scatter  the  Flowers  Over  the  Gray  and  the 
Blue,"  besides  a  number  of  others.' 

George  Watson  Kittredge,  born  North  Andover,  Massa- 
chusetts, December  11,  1856;  son  of  Joseph  and  Henrietta 
Frances  (Watson)  Kittredge,  B.  S.  from  Massachusetts 
Institute  Technical  (1877);  married  Georgia  Davis,  of 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  October  17,  1888,  is  a  civil  engineer 
of  rare  accomplishments,  and  after  holding  other  important 
railroad  positions,  has  been  since  1906  Chief  Engineer  of 
the  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  Railroad,  and  of 
the  Terminal  Railway  of  Buffalo,  and  of  the  New  Jersey 
Shore  Line  Railroad.* 

Josiah  Edwards  Kittredge,  born  Boston,  October  12, 
1866;  died  December  21,  1913;  son  Josiah  (M,  D.)  and 
Sarah  Whiting   (French)   Kittredge,  was  graduated  from 

nVho's  Who  in  America,   1916-1917. 

-Who's  Who  in    America,    1903-5,    and    1914-15. 

^Who's  Who  in   America,    1903-5,    and    19L'6-7. 

<Who's  Who  in    America,    1912-13. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  wrrn  Cognate  Branches  107 

Yale  (A.  B.) ;  married  (first)  Emma  MacNair,  of  Grove- 
land,  New  York  (died  1898),  and  (second)  Nettie  S.  Long, 
of  Genesee,  New  York,  December  30,  1903 ;  he  became  a 
distinguished  clergyman,  filling  many  important  positions.' 

Mabel  Hyde  Kittredge,  born  September  19,  1867,  Boston; 
daughter  Abbott  Eliot  and  Margaret  Ann  (Hyde)  Kitt- 
redge; is  distinguished  as  a  sociologist — the  Founder  and 
President  of  Practical  Housekeeping  Centers,  New  York, 
and  the  author  of  Housekeeping  Notes  (1911).' 

Charmian  Kittredge,  daughter  of  Captain  Willard  Kitt- 
redge, who  went  from  Maine  to  the  West  and  who  was 
Provost  Marshal  of  Salt  Lake  City  (1865-1866),  and  mar- 
ried her  mother,  a  young  poetess  of  Wisconsin,  on  his  ad- 
venturous journey,  is  the  great  granddaughter  of  Dr.  Ken- 
dall Kittredge,  born  October  19,  1773,  in  Billerica,  Massa- 
chusetts; son  of  Nehemiah  and  Mehitable  (Dutton)  Kitt- 
redge; married  at  Billerica,  February  28,  1770.''  She  is  now 
living  at  Glen  Ellen,  Sonoma  County,  California,  and  is  the 
widow  of  that  inimitable  and  universally  mourned  West- 
erner, a  child  of  nature,  Jack  London,  born  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, 1876,  author  of  numerous  writings  with  which  the 
public  is  familiar,  including  "The  Call  of  the  Wild,"  and 
"John  Barleycorn,"  which  we  instance  as  perhaps  the  best 
known.  She,  the  second  wife,  is  understood  to  have  been 
very  congenial  with  him,  he  often  indicating  their  closeness 
in  calling  her  "Mate-woman,"  and  "Comrade-wife;"  and 
she  seems  to  have  caught  the  vision  of  his  life,  and  to  have 
drunk  of  his  inspiration,  for  she  too  has  become  famous  as 
an  author,  in  producing  her  brilliant  book,  "The  Log  of 
the  Snark,"  to  which  every  scion  of  the  Kittredge  stock 
may  point  with  just  pride. 

JOHN  KITTREDGE 

was  an  emigrant  from  East  Suffolk,  near  Lowestoft,  Eng- 
land, sometime  prior  to  1660,  and  in  that  year  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  Billerica,  Massachusetts.  He  married  at 
Woburn,  Massachusetts,  on  November  2,  1664,  Mary  Lit- 
tlefield,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Francis  Littlefield  and 
his  wife  Jane  Hill,  of  Woburn,  and  who  was  born  there 
December  14,  1646.*    He  died  October  18,  1676,'  and  it  is 

lid.,   1912-13,  and  1914-15. 

2Id.,   1914-1915. 

'Records   of    Rillerica. 

^History   of   Billerica,  Gen.    Reg.,  p.  68. 

»Id.,  Vol.   1,  p.  80. 


108  The  Ewinq  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

said  there  is  a  tablet  to  his  memory  in  Bath  Cathedral, 
England.     Children  of  the  marriage  were: 

1.  JOHN,  born  January  24,  1666. 

2.  James,  born  March  21,  1668. 

3.  Daniel,  born  July  22,   1670. 

4.  Jonathan,  born  July  16,  1674. 

5.  Benoni   (posthumous),  born  May  2,  1677. 
Lowestoft  is  a  Suffolk  seaport  on  a  declivity  a  hundred 

miles  northeast  of  London,  and  famous  for  its  herring  fish- 
cries  and  as  one  of  the  most  fashionable  watering  places  on 
the  west  coast  of  England.  It  became  noted  in  English 
history  when,  in  1665,  the  Dutch  fleet  under  admiral  Opdam 
was  defeated  by  the  Duke  of  York's  fleet.  It  was  at  Lowe- 
stoft, in  1784,  that  John  Adams,  the  first  ambassador  from 
the  United  States  to  England,  landed.  In  the  World  War 
(1914-1918),  Lowestoft  had  its  historic  interest  much  re- 
vived as  the  result  of  the  unique  triple  attack  on  it  from 
the  Germans  by  zeppelins,  cruisers  and  undersea  craft. 

DR.   JOHN   KITTREDGE 

was  the  son  of  John  Kittredge  and  his  wife,  Mary  Little- 
field;  he  was  born  in  Billerica,  January  24,  1666,  and  mar- 
ried Hannah  French  of  Billerica  before  Jonathan  Danforth, 
junior,  on  August  3,  1685.''  He  died  at  Billerica,  April  2^, 
1714,  and  she  died  October  19,  1745.'  Children  of  the  mar- 
riage were : 

1.  John,  born  September  14,  1685. 

2.  James,  born  August  22,   1687. 

3.  Hannah,  born  May  4,  1689;  died  March  21,  1690. 

4.  Jacob,   born    February    15,    1691 ;    died   August    18, 
1692. 

5.  Hannah,  2nd,  born  May,  1693. 

6.  Joseph,  born  March  31,  1695. 

7.  Jonathan,  born  January  10,   1697. 

8.  William,  born  February  11,  1699. 

9.  Abigail,  born  November  15.  1700. 

10.  Jane,  born  March  2y,  1703. 

11.  Mirah,   born   February    i,    1705;   died   February   3, 

1705- 

12.  FRANCIS,  born  October  2^,  1706.' 

DR.    FRANCIS    KITTREDGE    I. 

was  the  son  of  John  Kittredge  and  his  wife,  Hannah  French 

'Records  of  Billerica,  Vol.   1,  p.  80. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  109 

(q.  v.).  He  was  born  October  2j,  1706,  at  Billerica,  and 
married  there  on  August  i,  1736.  To  him  and  his  wife 
Lydia,  were  born,  at  Billerica,  three  sons : 

1.  FRANCIS,  born  July  i,  1728. 

2.  Josiah,  born  July  25,  1730;  died  May,  1744. 

3.  Zephaniah,  born  May  2y,   1732/ 

To  them  were  also  born  at  Tewksbury  (which  was  found- 
ed in  1734,  formerly  a  part  of  Billerica)  : 

4.  Lydia,  born  July  28,  1734,  and 

5.  Solomon,  born  June  9,  1736. 

The  wife  L.ydia,  died  at  Tewksbury,  August  i,  1736/ 
SOLOMON  KiTTREDGE,  the  son,  born  as  stated,  June  9,  1736, 
died  August  24,  1792;  he  settled  in  Amherst,  Massachusetts, 
about  1766;  married  Tabitha  Ingalls,  of  Andover,  Massa- 
chusetts, May  14,  1755,  she  dying  May  8,  1794.  He  was 
a  prominent  man  in  the  parish,  living  in  the  northwestern 
part.     The  children  of  the  marriage  were : 

(i)  Solomon,  born  in  1755;  died  in  Mt.  Vernon, 
October  22,  1845 ;  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier. 

(2)  Zephaniah,  born  August  24,  1757;  died  August  17, 

1843. 

(3)  Tabitha,  born  July  28,  1758;  married  Benjamin 
Sawyer. 

(4)  Josiah,  born  July  26,   1761. 

(5)  Phoebe,  born  June  5,  1763;  married  Aaron 
Townsend. 

(6)  Stephen,  born  June  27,  1765. 

(7)  Lydia,  born  August  29,  1767;  married  Joshua  Kitt- 
redge,  November  29,  1787. 

(8)  Ingalls,  born  December  10,   1769. 

(9)  Betsy,  born  September  16,  1771 ;  married  Mr. 
Wheeler,  and  died  November  9,  1865. 

(10)  Peter,  born  September  25,  1773. 

(11)  Asa,  dates  not  known. 

(12)  Sally,  born  April  19,  1779;  married  Abial  Stick- 
ney,  of  Tewksbury,  Massachusetts,  and  died  August  28, 
1847. 

ZEPHANIAH  KITTREDGE,  the  grandson,  married  Elizabeth 
Slickney,  of  Tewksbur>%  who  died  in  Mt.  Vernon  August  6, 
1851 ;  he  was  a  physician  and  surgeon,  and  (to  use  the 
words  of  the  historian)  "he  was  long  and  favorably  known 
as  a  skillful  surgeon  and  physician."     The  children  of  his 

'Records   of   Billerica. 

^Town    Records   of   Tewksbury. 


110  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

marriage  were:  ist,  Betsy,  born  May  i8,  1782;  died  August 
5,  1786.  2nd.,  Nabby,  born  1790;  married  Jesse  Smith.  3rd, 
Zephaniah,  born  September  15,  1785;  died  August  3,  1873; 
married  Mary  Wheeler  of  Hancock,  who  was  born  in 
August,  1788,  and  died  February  25,  1880.  4th,  Betsy, 
born  1788;  died  March  5,  1799.  5th,  Nancy,  born  1790; 
married  Uriah  Wilkins,  and  died  in  Stowe,  Vermont,  Jan- 
uary 10,  1832,  and  6th,  Fanny,  born  1799;  died  September 

16,  1821.' 

DR.  FRANCIS  KITTREDGE  II 

was  the  son  of  Dr.  Francis  and  Lydia  Kittredge.  He  was 
born  in  a  part  of  Billerica,  July  i,  1728,  afterwards  called 
Tewksbury,  and  died  in  Walpole,  New  Hampshire,  April 

17,  1808.  He  married  February  20,  1752,'  Abigail  Richard- 
son of  Billerica,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Hannah  J.  Rich- 
ardson, who  was  born  March  6,  according  to  the  town 
records,  1725,  but  according  to  the  tombstone,  1730.'  Born 
of  this  marriage  were  sixteen  children,  the  youngest  re- 
corded being  Melicent,  born  September  30,  1777.'  The 
children  of  this  marriage  noted  in  the  town  records  of 
Tewksbury  are : 

1.  Jesseniah,  born  March  i,  1764;  died  August  8,  1829; 
married  Lydia  Newton  Bond. 

2.  STEPHEN,  born  January  19,  1766;  married  Elizabeth 
Eaton. 

3.  Rhoda,  born  December  19,  1767;  married  Amaziah 
Porter. 

4.  Achsa,  born  April  30,   1772;  married  Job  Giddings. 

5.  Susanna,  born  November  29,  1773. 

6.  Melicent,  born  September  30,  1777;  married  (first) 
Earle  Giddings,   (second)  Jason  Beckwith.* 

Other  children  of  this  marriage  were  Paul ;  Francis,  mar- 
ried, Lucy  Crosby ;  Molly ;  Elizabeth,  and  Abigail,  married 
Zephaniah  Kidder.°  Of  the  remaining  children,  there  was 
another  Achsa,  born  June  16,  1770,  and  died  January  ^y, 
1771."  Three  children  were  Amy,  married,  Timothy  Crosby; 
Rachel,  married  Mr.  Foster,  and  Lydia,  married  Mr. 
Mathews.'  The  remaining  child  is  not  accounted  for,  prob- 
ably died  in  infancy. 

^History   of   Amhurst,   pp.   661-662. 

^Records  and  History  of  Billerica,  and  Tombstone   at  Walpole,  N.  H. 

'Records   of   Tewksbury. 

^Records    of   Tewksbury. 

^History   of   Walpole,   N.    H. 

"Records   of  Tewksbury. 

'Nat.   No.  101542,  N.  S.   D.  A.   R.,  App.,  Martha  Hodges  Kittredge  Bearce. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  ill 

As  explanatory  and  interesting,  we  quote  from  the  Wal- 
pole  Town  History,  publisiied  in  1880,  sub  nom.  Kittredge, 
Francis,  Dr.,  as  follows : 

"It  is  curious  to  note  how  some  incident,  seemingly  trivial 
at  the  time,  and  wholly  disconnected  with  what  follows, 
changes  the  whole  aspect  and  condition  of  an  individual's 
future  life.  Following  is  a  case  in  point.  More  than  a 
hundred  years  ago  (the  precise  time  not  known),  one  of 
the  Bellows  family  of  this  town  broke  his  leg,  and  as  sur- 
geons were  not  plenty  in  the  vicinity,  his  friends  were  forced 
to  the  alternative  of  sending  to  Tewksbury,  Massachusetts. 
There  they  found  Dr.  Francis  Kittredge,  who  came  to  Wal- 
pole,  set  the  bone,  and  stayed  till  his  patient  was  out  of 
danger.  During  his  stay,  he  was  persuaded  to  take  up  a  lot 
of  land  and  remove  to  Walpole.  He  selected  the  farm  now 
owned  by  Charles  E.  Watkins,  which  was  then  an  unbroken 
forest.  He  had  by  his  wife  Abigail  sixteen  children,  several 
of  them  dying  in  infancy.  Dr.  Frank,  as  he  was  called,  was 
a  celebrated  'bone  setter.'  which  in  those  days  was  a  special 
gift.  In  connection  with  his  son,  Jesseniah,  the  celebrated 
salve,  known  at  the  time  as  'Kittredge  grease'  was  prepared, 
which  was  highly  valued  for  its  supposed  healing  properties. 
He  was  famous,  as  was  also  his  son  Jesseniah,  in  treatment 
of  old  sores  and  chronic  complaints  in  general.  How  many 
of  Dr.  Frank's  children  were  born  in  town,  has  not  been 
ascertained  nor  how  many  lived  to  maturity.  Their  ages 
are  not  known,  and  consequently  cannot  be  methodically 
arranged.  He  died  April  17,  1808,  aged  80  years,  and  she 
died  February  15,  181 2,  aged  82." 

DR.  JESSENIAH  KITTREDGE,  the  son  abovc  noted,  who  died 
August  8,  1829,  married  February  28,  1793,  Lydia  Newton 
Bond,  who  was  born  March  22,  1772,  died  September  4, 
1837,  and  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Bond  of  North  Brook- 
field,  Massachusetts,  and  to  them  were  born  Lydia  Kitt- 
redge, who  married  Francis  Fisher,  and  the  children  to  her 
by  this  marriage  were  Francis  K.,  Horace  N.,  and  John  H. 
Fisher.  Horace  N.,  a  soldier,  scholar  and  author  of  great 
renown,  married  Kiameche  C.  Mason,  of  Charlestown, 
Massachusetts,  November  13,  1865,'  and  from  this  union 
were  born  Francis  M.,  Mary  L.,  Sarah  G.  and  Horace  C. 
Fisher. 

There  was  also  born  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Jesseniah  and  Lydia 
(Bond)  Kittredge  a  son,  Thomas  Bond,  who  was  a  physi- 

'Who's   W^ho  in  America,   1914-1915. 
8 


112  TiiK  p:\ving  Gknealogy  wrrir  Cognate  Branches 

cian  and  surgeon,  at  Keene,  New  Hampshire,  born  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1802;  died  December  8,  1881 ;  married  October  24, 
1836,  Caroline  A.  Smith,  descendant  of  one  of  the  Colonial 
Governors  of  Connecticut.  A  son  of  this  marriage,  Henry 
Grattan  Kittredge,  born  January  22,  1841 ;  died  June  5, 
1909.'  He  married  Martha  Sargent  Hodges,  October  12, 
1870,  and  from  this  union  were  born  five  children,  namely: 
Alice,  Isabel,  Thomas  Bond,  Louise,  married  Samuel  B. 
Haynes,  West  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  Martha  Hodges, 
married  Clarence  P.  Bearce,  East  Providence,  Rhode 
Island.  The  authors  have  enjoyed  with  the  two  latter  an 
interesting  correspondence,  which  bespeaks  for  them  the 
high  culture  and  refinement  to  be  expected  from  their  noble 
lineage. 

The  son,  Thomas  Bond,  born  March  20,  1878,  Reading, 
Massachusetts,  died  October  14,  1918,  at  Providence,  Rhode 
Island;  married  Emily  Volk,  born  Hitchcock,  Texas,  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1889.  Issue,  a  daughter,  Arielle,  born  San  An- 
tonio, Texas,  November  15,  191 5.  The  v>'idow,  Mrs.  Emily 
Volk  Kittredge,  whom  w^e  know,  is  an  admirable  type  of 
fine  womanhood,  such  as  might  well  be  selected  for  alliance 
with  the  Kittredge  family. 

Another  son  of  the  marriage  of  Dr.  Jesseniah  and  Lydia 
Kittredge,  was  Jesseniah,  junior,  also  a  physician  and  sur- 
geon, born  in  Walpole,  New  Hampshire,  February  24,  1800; 
died  in  Waverly,  Massachusetts,  November  i,  1877,  who 
married  May  Bellows  Stone  (born  August  22,  181 1;  died 
February  20,  1886),  in  October,  1833,  at  Watertown,  Massa- 
chusetts, her  home;  and  of  him,  Thomas  Bellows  Peck,  in 
his  w^ork.  The  Bellows  Genealogy,  at  page  478,  observes : 

"Dr.  Kittredge  belonged  to  a  well  known  and  highly  re- 
spected family  of  physicians,  and  was  the  fifth  in  direct 
line  to  follow  that  profession.  He  was  in  the  sixth  genera- 
tion from  John  Kittredge,  the  emigrant  ancestor,  who  came 
to  this  country  from  Oulton,  or  Lowestoft,  Suffolk  County, 
England,  and  was  one  of  the  original  settlers,  in  1660,  of 
Billerica,  Massachusetts,  living  in  that  part  of  the  town 
which  was  afterwards  set  off  as  Tewksbury.  The  line  of 
descent  was  through  Dr.  Jesseniah  and  Lydia  (Bond)  Kitt- 
redge, of  Walpole;  Dr.  Francis  and  Abigail  (Richardson) 
Kittredge,  of  Tewksbury  and  Walpole;  Dr.  Francis  and 
Lydia  Kittredge,  of  Tewksbury ;  Dr.  John  and  Hannah 
(French)  Kittredge,  of  Tewksbury,  to  John  Kittredge,  the 

iWho's   Who   in   America,    1912-1913 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  113 

immigrant,  and  his  wife,  Mar}^  Littlefield,  from  whom  all 
of  the  name  of  Kittredge  in  this  country  are  believed  to  be 
descended.  Dr.  Kittredge's  mother,  Lydia  Bond,  who  was 
bom  March  22,  1772,  and  died  September  4,  1837,  was 
daughter  of  Thomas  Bond,  of  Brookfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  was  in  the  fifth  generation  from  William  Bond,  of 
Watertown,  the  ancestor  of  most  of  the  families  of  Bond 
in  New  England.  His  grandfather,  Dr.  Francis  Kittredge, 
removed  from  Tewksbury  to  Walpole  about  1790,*  and 
built  and  lived  in  the  large  Colonial  house  about  two  miles 
and  a  half  southeast  of  the  village  on  what  is  still  sometimes 
called  'Kittredge  Hill.'  " 

FKANCis,  son  of  Dr.  Francis  and  Abigail  Kittredge,  who 
himself  became  a  physician  and  surgeon,  was  a  soldier  for 
Independence  of  the  Revolutionar}^  War,  bom  at  Tewks- 
bury, Massachusetts,  July  2,  1758,  and  served  three  months, 
in  1776,  private  in  Capt.  Edward  Farmer's  Company,  Col. 
Jacob  Gerrish's  Regiment.  February  20  to  May  20,  and  for 
six  months,  1776,  private  in  Capt.  Samuel  Tay's  Company, 
Col.  Jonathan  Reed,  and  for  three  months,  1777  or  1778,  in 
Capt.  Edward  Farmer's  Company,  Col.  Jonathan  Reed,  and 
for  two  months,  1779,  surgeon's  mate  in  Capt.  Nathaniel 
West's  Company  on  ship  "Black  Prince,"  serving  in  the 
Regiment  of  Guards  at  Bunker  Hill,  and  engaging  in  the 
Penobscot  Expedition,  and  perhaps  performing  other  ser- 
vices.* He  died  at  Tewksbury,  Massachusetts,  on  Novem- 
ber 9,  1837.  He  was  married  August  26,  1782.  to  Lucy 
Crosby,  of  Amherst,  Massachusetts,  who  died  September 
4.  1803.  Their  children  were  Francis,  born  Januar}'  26, 
T783;  Paul,  born  August  26,  1784;  Lucy,  born  September 
17,  1786;  Lydia,  born  August  21,  1788;  Susanna,  born 
September  8,  1790;  Joel,  born  March  30,  1893,  died  August 
8,  1793,  and  Joel  Crosby,  bom  July  31,  1794,  died  Septem- 
ber 7,  1832.°  The  son  Paul  Kittredge,  who  was  also  a  phy- 
sician and  surgeon,  was  born  as  stated,  August  26,  1784, 
and  died  August  10,  1845;  he  married  January  17,  1808, 
Rebecca  Martin,  of  W"etherfield,  Vermont,  by  whom  he 
had  fourteen  children,  four  of  them  being  physicians." 
Under  this  line,  Mrs.  Estelle  S.  (Kittredge)  Perham,  wife 
of  Walter  Perham,  of  Chelmsford,  Massachusetts,  has  been 

•Probably    in   or  before    1784. 

^Records  of  Mass.  Archives,  Boston  State  House,  Vol.  19,  p.  76;  File  29947, 
Revolutionary  V^ar,  Department  of  the  Interior,  T'ension  Bureau,  Wash- 
ington,   D.    C. 

-Records  of  Tewksbury. 


114  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

accepted  as  a  member  of  the  National  Society  of  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution,  National  Number  22736, 
she  being  a  daughter  of  Cullen  Fordyce  and  Amy  (Hull) 
Kittredge,  and  her  father  a  son  of  Dr.  Paul  and  Rebecca 
(Martin)  Kittredge,  thereby  making  her  a  great  grand- 
daughter of  the  Revolutionary  soldier,  Dr.  Francis  Kitt- 
redge, and  his  wife,  Lucy  Crosby.' 

The  subject  of  this  division.  Dr.  Francis  Kittredge,  was 
surgeon  for  the  side  of  the  patriots  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution,  for  which  see — 

Journal  of  the  Third  Provincial  Congress  of  Massa- 
chusetts, page  374. 

Bond's  History  of  Watertown,  page  57. 

Hazen's  History  of  Billerica,  pages  85,  86. 

Aldrich's  History  of  Walpole,  pages  303,  304,  305. 

Under  this  service  by  him  as  hospital  surgeon,  Mrs. 
Martha  Hodges  (Kittredge)  Bearce  has  been  accepted  as  a 
member  of  the  National  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  National  Number  101542,  besides 
quite  a  number  of  other  descendants,  some  of  whom  are 
elsewhere  mentioned  in  that  connection. 

ABIGAIL    (RICHARDSON)     KITTREDGE 

wife  of  Dr.  Francis  Kittredge,  was  born  at  Billerica,  Massa- 
chusetts, March  6,  according  to  the  town  records,  1725,  but 
according  to  the  inscription  on  her  tombstone  1730,  and  died 
February  15,  181 2,  at  Walpole,  New  Hampshire.  She  was 
married  February  20,  1752,  at  or  near  Billerica,  and  had 
sixteen  children.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Andrew  and 
Hannah  (Jefts)  Richardson,  her  mother  being  the  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  Jefts.' 

The  Richardsons  were  one  of  the  earliest  and  most  noted 
of  the  New  England  families. 

ANDREW  RICHARDSON,  father  of  Abigail,  was  one  of  three 
brothers,  the  other  two  being  Thomas  and  Jonathan,  and 
these  are  the  three  brothers  mentioned  in  history  as  having 
gone  in  a  company  of  thirty-six  soldiers  under  Capt.  John 
Lane  to  Dunstable  and  Groton  as  a  "relief,"  July  4,  1706. 
He  (Andrew)  was  born  in  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  June 
16,  1678;  married  by  Joseph  Williams,  a  judicial  officer,  to 
Hannah  Jefts,  December  9,  1707;  she  died  October  31,  1749, 

^Application  Estelle  S.   Perham,  Nat.   No.   22736,   N.   S.   D.   A.   R. 

'Records    of  Billerica    and     Tewksbury,    Mass.;    Tombstone     Inscriptions, 

Kittredge  Lot,  Walpole,  N.  H.,  and  John  Vinton's  Richardson  Memorial, 
pp.   513-14. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cogxate  Branches  115 

and  he  on  December  23,  1752,  in  Billerica ;  he  left  a  will 
dated  December  10,  1750,  probated  January  15,  1753;  he 
lived  and  died  on  a  farm  in  the  easterly  part  of  Billerica, 
which  his  father  gave  him  by  will  dated  October  14,  1705. 
Children  of  this  marriage  were :  i.  Andrew,  born  January 
18,  1709,  married  Elizabeth  Winn  of  Billerica,  December  25, 
1733,  having  one  child,  Andrew.  2.  Hannah,  born  July 
7,  1712;  married  Benjamin  Kidder.  3.  Phoebe,  bom 
March  4,  1716;  married  Mr.  Marshall,  having  children, 
Isaac,  Phoebe  and  Samuel.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  December 
9,  1719,  married  John  Blanchard.  5.  Mary,  born  May  26, 
1722,  married  Joseph  Danforth.  6.  Abigail,  bom  March 
6,  1725.' 

THOMAS  RICHARDSON,  the  father  of  Andrew  and  grand- 
father of  Abigail  above  mentioned,  was  born  in  Woburn, 
Massachusetts,  October  1645,  married  Mary  Stimpson.' 

THOMAS  AND  MARY  RICHARDSON  were  the  father  and 
mother  of  Thomas  and  great  grandparents  of  Abigail  Rich- 
ardson. This  grand-parent,  Thomas,  who  died  in  Woburn, 
August  28,  165 1,  was  the  youngest  of  three  brothers, 
Ezekiel,  Samuel  and  Thomas,  who  in  co-operation  with 
others  were  the  founders  of  Woburn,  and  the  formation 
therein,  in  1641,  of  a  church.  Ezekiel,  the  eldest  brother, 
came  from  England  in  the  fleet  with  W'inthrop,  in  1630,  by 
the  6th  of  July,  when  fifteen  ships  of  that  fleet  had  arrived. 
It  is  supposed  that  the  two  younger  brothers,  Samuel  and 
Thomas,  arrived  as  much  as  five  years  later.  This  is  in- 
dicated by  the  fact  that  their  names  did  not  appear  in  a  list 
of  the  inhabitants  of  Charleston,  dated  January  9,  1633, 
and  the  first  notice  of  either  is  when  Mary,  the  wife  of 
Thomas,  joined  the  Church,  February  21,  1635.  Later,  in 
1637,  t)0th  Samuel  and  Thomas  united  with  the  church 
and  received  the  grant  of  a  house  plot,  and  were  admitted 
as  freemen  of  the  Colony  and  made  citizens.  The  children 
of  this  marriage  of  the  immigrant  Thomas  with  Mary, 
which  probably  occurred  on  the  eve  of  their  departure  from 
England,  were:  i.  Mar>%  born  at  Charleston,  baptized 
November  17,  1638;  married  John  Baldwin.  2.  Isaac,  born 
May,  1643;  married  Deborah  Fuller.  3.  thomas,  born 
October,  1645;  married  Mary  Stimpson.  4.  Ruth,  born 
April.  1647.  5-  Phoebe,  born  January,  1648.  6.  Nathaniel, 
bom  January,  1650;  married  Mary,  whose  surname  seems 

'John    Vinton's    Richardson    Memorial,    pp.    513-14. 
-Jd..   pp.   506-507. 


IIG  The  Ewing  C4enealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

to  have  been  lost  in  the  charm  of  the  first.  These  last  five 
vi^ere  born  in  Billerica.  Ruth  or  Phoebe,  the  records  leave 
it  uncertain  which,  married  Lieutenant  Thomas  Fuller,  of 
England,  ancestor  of  many  of  the  Fullers  of  Nev/  England. 

DR.   STEPHEN   KITTREDGE 

was  the  son  of  Francis  Kittredge  and  his  wife,  Abigail 
Richardson,  and  was  born  at  Tewksbury,  Massachusetts, 
January  19,  1766,  and  died  at  Walpole,  New  Hampshire, 
July  25,  1800;  he  married  Elizabeth  Eaton  in  Walpole,  New 
Hampshire,  on  June  16,  1791,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Fessenden 
officiating.^ 

The  children  of  this  marrage  were : 

1.  Stephen,  became  a  physician  and  surgeon,  went  to 
Cincinnati,  and  died  early. 

2.  Roswell,  born  May  8,  1793,  also  a  physician  and  sur- 
geon,  who  went  West  and  died  young. 

3.  Susan  (Suky),  born  December  5,  1795. 

4.  EBENEZER  EATON,  born  February  3,  1799.' 

The  probate  records  of  Cheshire  County,  at  Keene,  New 
Hampshire,  show  that  the  widow,  Elizabeth  Eaton  Kitt- 
redge, qualified  as  administratrix  of  the  estate  of  her  de-- 
ceased  husband,  Stephen  Kittredge,  August  13,  1800,  and 
that  she  afterwards  (some  time  prior  to  June  18,  1807) 
married  Amos  Garnsey,  of  Westminister,  Vermont,  which 
is  directly  across  the  Connecticut  River  from  Walpole.^ 

From  the  record  of  deeds  of  that  county,  it  appears  that 
he  (Amos  Garnsey)  was  guardian  of  the  minor  children, 
Stephen  Roswell,  Suky  and  Ebenezer  Eaton,  conveying  as 
such  land  of  theirs  on  October  29,  1806,^  for  a  considera- 
tion of  $942,  and  that  he  resigned  as  guardian  on  May  13, 
1807.' 

ELIZABETH  ( EATON )  KITTREDGE 

wife  of  Dr.  Stephen  Kittredge,  was  born  in  1769,  probably 
at  Hampton  Falls  or  Candia,  New  Hampshire,  and  died  in 
the  West  in  1853;  she  was  married,  as  stated,  (first)  to 
Dr.  Stephen  Kittredge,  June  16,  1791,  and  (second)  to 
Amos  Garnsey.  Her  parents  were  Ebenezer  Eaton  and  his 
wife,  Anne  Brown,  who  were  married  at  Kensington,  New 
Hampshire,  by  the  Rev.  Jeremiah  Fogg,  on  June  9,  1762.° 

'Records  and  Hist,  of  Walpole,  N.   H. 

2  Id. 

^Probate   Records  of  Cheshire   County,   Keene,   N.   H. 

^Records  of   Deeds,   Vol.   50,  p.   347,   Cheshire   Co.,   N.    H. 

■'Registry   of   Deeds,   Id. 

■^Department   of   Vital    Statistics,    Concord,    N.    H. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  117 

EBENEZER  EATON,  the  father,  was  born  at  Hampton  Falls, 
April  lo,  1735,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  (Fowler)  Eaton, 
and  died  at  Walpole,  New  Hampshire,  August  27,  1805.  He 
married  (first)  Anne  Brown  as  above  stated,  and  (second) 
Comfort  Emerson,  in  Walpole,  New  Hampshire,  Novem- 
ber 10,  1793.'  Children  by  his  marriage  with  Anne  Brown 
were:  Eliphalit,  eldest  son,  married  about  1792,  Elizabeth 
being  his  wife's  first  name;  Elizabeth,  born  1769;  Josiah, 
married  Zeruah  Robinson,  in  Walpole,  New  Hampshire, 
April  23,  1809;  Abigail,  dates  not  known;  Calvin,  born 
1786;  died  March  4,  1809.'  There  were  probably  other 
children. 

The  father,  Ebenezer  Eaton,  was  a  Revolutionary  sol- 
dier, ranking  corporal,  in  the  cause  of  Independence;  he 
was  a  corporal  in  Capt.  Joshua  Bailey's  Company,  Col. 
Thomas  Stickney's  Regiment,  General  Stark's  Brigade  of 
New  Hampshire  Militia,  which  marched  from  Hopkinton, 
July,  1777,  and  joined  the  Northern  Continental  Army,  and 
he  participated  in  the  engagement  in  which  the  company 
took  part  on  July  22,  of  that  year.'  He  probably  otherwise 
served  in  the  great  struggle  for  freedom.  His  removal  to 
Cheshire  County,  New  Hampshire,  in  or  near  Walpole,  was 
probably  after  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  as  indi- 
cated by  the  records  of  family  events. 

ANNE  BROWN,  the  first  wife  of  Ebenezer  Eaton,  and 
mother  of  Elizabeth  Eaton,  was  born  at  Kensington,  New 
Hampshire,  March  15,  1743;  died  in  or  near  Walpole,  New 
Hampshire,  between  1786  (the  year  of  her  youngest  child's 
birth)  and  1793  (the  year  of  her  surviving  husband's  second 
marriage).  Her  lineage  comes  through  many  prominent 
families  of  New  Egland ;  she  was  the  daughter  of  Nehemiah 
Brown  and  Anne  Longfellow,  who  were  married  January 
26,  1738,  at  Kensington,  New  Hampshire.  Anne  Longfel- 
low, born  August  2,  1719,  was  the  daughter  of  Nathan 
Longfellow  and  his  wife,  Mary  Green,  who  were  married 
May  28,  1713.  Mary  Green,  born  April  15,  1701,  at  Hamp- 
ton, New  Hampshire,  was  the  daughter  of  John  Green  and 
his  wife,  Abiel  Marston,  who  were  married  December  23, 
1695.  Abiel  Marston,  born  April  12,  1677,  at  Hampton, 
New  Hampshire,  was  the  daughter  of  Ephraim  Marston 
(born  December  2,  1654,  son  of  Thomas  Marston),  and  his 

^Records  of  Walpole,   N.   H. 

=Id. 

•'N.   H.    Revolutionary    Rolls,   at  Concord,  Vol.   2,   p.   182. 


118  The  Ewinq  Genealogy  wmi  Cognate  Bbanohes 

wife,  Abiel  Sanborn,  who  were  married  February  3,  1666. 
Abiel  Sanborn  was  the  daughter  of  Jabez  Sanborn  and 
Abiah  Masten,  who  married  December  29,  1716,  groom 
nineteen  years  and  bride  fourteen  years  of  age.* 

Other  children  bom  to  Nathan  and  Mary  (Green)  Long- 
fellow were:  Jonathan,  born  May  23,  1714;  Samuel,  born 
May  8,  1716;  Jacob,  born  July  20,  1722;  Sewall,  born 
October  6,  1724;  Abigail,  born  February  5,  1726;  Nathan, 
born  June  8,  1729,  and  Green,  born  April  5,  1731. 

Other  children  born  to  John  and  Abiel  (Marston) 
Green  were:  Jeremiah,  born  November  26,  1697;  Abraham, 
bom  August  28,  1707;  John,  born  March  i,  1710;  Phoebe, 
born  June  19,  1715;  Anna,  bom  May  18,  1718. 

Other  children  born  to  Ephraim  and  Abiel  (Sanbom) 
Marston  were:  John,  born  February  11,  1680;  Thomas, 
born  July  14,  1687;  Jeremiah,  bom  November  5,  1691,  and 
Ephraim,  born  July  14,  1687.' 


*We  have  conformed  the  early  dates  to  the  present  reckoning  of  time, 
instead  of  commencing  the  year  at  March  25,  as  was  in  some  instances  done 
before  1752. 

'Department  of  Vital  Statistics,   Concord,  N.   H. 


DR.  EBENEZER  EATON   KITTREDGE 


CHAPTER  XVIII. 

THE   KITTREDGE  TREE  CONTINUED:  DR.    EBENEZER  EATON,   HIS 
CAREER,   MARRIAGE  AND  DESCENDANTS. 

DR.    EBENEZER    EATON    KITTREDGE 

the  son  of  Stephen  Kittredge  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Eaton, 
was  born  in  Walpole,  New  Hampshire,  February  3,  1799; 
was  qualified  to  practice  in  medicine  and  surgeiy,  then  went 
to  Mississippi,  going  on  a  flat  boat  from  Cincinnati  down 
the  Mississippi  river;  he  settled  in  Jefferson  County  in  that 
State,  and  shortly  afterwards  obtained  his  medical  degree 
and  diploma  as  physician  and  surgeon.  He  was  profession- 
ally called  by  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Green,  widow  of  Everard 
Green,  to  "Gayosa,"  their  family  home,  and  there  met  the 
daughter,  Martha  Wills  Green,  whom  he  soon  after  mar- 
ried, October  5,  1820,  the  marriage  license  being  issued 
October  3,   1820.' 

We  pause  here  for  a  bit  of  romance :  It  is  a  tradition 
in  the  family,  well  recognized,  that  the  mother  of  Martha 
Wills  Green  (Mrs.  Elizabeth  Kirkland  Green)  fiist  saw 
Dr.  Kittredge  at  Washington,  in  Jefferson  County,  Miss- 
issippi, where  he  had  located,  and  was  so  impressed  with 
his  appearance,  that  she  inquired  who  he  was.  The  answer 
came:  "A  young  Yankee  doctor  who  has  just  hung  out  his 
shingle."  To  which  she  replied :  "Well,  I  like  his  looks, 
like  the  way  he  moves;  he  is  smart,  I  see  that."  Not  long 
after,  when  a  doctor  was  needed  in  her  home,  she  sent  for 
him ;  then  followed  his  courtship  of  Martha  Wills,  at  that 
time  a  slip  of  a  girl,  and  later  his  proposal  of  marriage  to 
her.  The  marriage  was  opposed  pretty  generally  by  her 
relatives,  probably  because  of  the  prejudice  among  the  aris- 
tocratic families  of  the  South  in  its  early  days  agamst  matri- 
monial alliances  with  new  arrivals  from  families  of  the 
North.  The  mother,  however,  was  very  friendly  to  the 
marriage,  discerning,  no  doubt,  the  merit  and  strong  char- 
acter, and  foreseeing  the  success,  of  the  expectant  groom. 
The  climax  of  her  argument  was,  "If  he  ever  gets  drowned, 
there  will  be  no  use  looking  for  him  down  stream" — mean- 
ing, of  course,  that  he  would  never  "go  with  the  current." 

About  1828,  Dr.  Kittredge  removed  with  his  family  to 
Assumption  Parish,  Louisiana,  near  Napoleonville,  being  a 

^Record  Book  of  Marriage  Licenses,  Jefferson  Co.,  Miss.,  from  1805  to 
1827,   p.    158. 

(110) 


120  The  Ewing  Genealogy  wrrii  Cognate  Branches 

pioneer  in  that  section,  where  he  acquired  what  afterwards 
became  one  of  the  most  magnificent  sugar  plantations  in 
the  State,  which  he  called  "Elm  Hall,"  and  where  he  con- 
structed a  mansion  home  that  remained  the  residence  of 
the  family  during  his  life  and  until  long  after  his  death.  He 
was  one  of  the  wealthiest  of  the  Louisiana  planters,  eminent 
in  his  profession,  and  honored  and  esteemed  by  all. 

His  elegant  home  was  the  center  of  education,  culture, 
and  refinement.  When  Dr.  Kittredge  and  his  gifted  son, 
Joseph  Kirkland,  were  surrounded  by  the  former's  bril- 
liant sons-in-law,  Fayette  Clay  Ewing,  George  Wesley 
Race,  George  W.  Jones,  Joseph  B.  Whittington  and  Robert 
N.  Sims,  all  scholars  and  wits,  there  was  an  assembly  of 
men,  flashing  out  fires  of  intellect,  rarely  witnessed  in 
any  home — all  possessed  of  grace  and  charm  of  manner, 
handsome  and  commanding  in  appearance,  and  gifted  with 
a  fluency  and  resource  of  conversation  at  once  attractive, 
interesting  and  ornate. 

Dr.  Kittredge  (E.  E.)  died  October  19,  1867,  at  his  sum- 
mer  home,    Winchester   Springs,    Tennessee,   lamented   by 
numerous  relatives  and  friends,  especially  in  the  East,  and 
South. 

MARTHA  WILLS   GREEN 

(wife  of  Dr.  Ebenezer  Eaton  Kittredge)  was  born  at 
"Gayosa"  December  i,  1804;  died  November  18,  1836,  at 
"Elm  Hall."  She  is  buried  in  the  family  vault  at  Napoleon- 
ville,  Louisiana,  in  the  cemetery  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
which  was  built  by  her  husband,  and  the  Rector  of  which 
at  this  Avriting  is  her  grandson,  the  Rev.  Quincy  Ewing. 
She  was  a  very  beautiful  woman,  of  patrician  cast,  as  may 
readily  be  seen  from  her  accompanying  picture. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Kittredge's  marriage  with  Martha  Wills 
Green,  his  first  wife : 

1.  Elizabeth  Eaton,  born  March  9,  1822,  in  Jefferson 
County,  Mississippi;  died  August  31,  1847,  ^t  "Elm  Hall," 
Assumption  Parish,  Louisana.  She  married  Edmund  Par- 
sons Dwight,  a  lawyer  then  practicing  in  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana.     No  issue  survived  her. 

2.  Mary  Louise,  born  October  11,  1825,  in  Jefferson 
County,  Mississippi ;  died  at  "Glenwood,"  Assumption 
Parish,  Louisiana,  February  3,  1887.  She  was  much  be- 
loved for  her  kind  acts  and  broad  sympathies  by  all  who 
knew  her,  and  her  funeral,  preceded  at  her  special  request 


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TuE  EwixG  Genealogy  wrru  Cognate  Branches  121 

by  a  band  of  music,  was  generally  attended  by  the  people 
of  that  section  regardless  of  race  or  creed.  It  was  indeed 
a  day  of  universal  mourning.  She  was  married  on  April  3, 
1844,  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Leonidas  Polk,  to  George  Washington 
Jones  (son  of  John  and  Marion  Jones,)  born  June  5,  181 7, 
in  Ohio;  died  at  "Glenwood,"  Assumption  Parish,  Lou- 
isiana, March  25,  1889;  he  was  one  of  the  most  highly 
esteemed  sugar  planters  of  that  part  of  the  State.  Issue  of 
their  marriage : 

(i)  Cora  Wills,  who  was  a  brilliant  belle  of  New 
Orleans  society,  was  born  February  6,  1845;  ^^^^  i"  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  October,  1899;  married  at  "Glenwood"  Jan- 
uary 25,  1872,  to  Walter  F.  Moring,  born  Amelia  Court- 
house, Virginia,  1842;  died  Chicago,  Illinois,  June  25,  1886. 
Issue:  ist.  ^'George  Race,  born  January  24,  1873;  married 
June  21,  1898,  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  Fanny  Pendleton  Whit- 
ten,  born  December  12,  1876,  in  Covington,  Kentucky;  died 
June  II,  1914,  in  New  York  City.  Children:  George  P., 
born  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  April  8,  1899,  and  Dorothy,  born 
in  Chicago,  August  5,  1900.  2nd.  Cora  Martha,  born  in 
Chicago,  January  27,  1879,  married  in  Napoleonville,  Lou- 
isiana, November  21,  1900,  Weaker  Irving  Barton,  born  in 
Louisiana  in  about  the  year  1863;  died  December  23,  1906, 
in  Ascension  Parish,  Louisiana.  Children:  Walter  Irving, 
born  August  23,  1901,  and  Cora  Moring,  born  July  31, 
1906,  both  in  Ascension  Parish,  Louisiana. 

(2)  Stephen,  died  when  five  years  old. 

(3)  Elizabeth  Clarendon,  born  December  16,  1848; 
married  (first)  April  3,  1869,  William  Sims,  a  Captain  in 
the  C.  S.  A.,  and  later  a  prominent  lawyer  of  Napoleon- 
ville, Louisiana,  born  in  1838;  died  at  "Glenwood,"  Septem- 
ber 8,  1876,  and  (second)  she  married  on  June  2,  1897,  at 
Gonzales,  Texas,  Edward  Pugh  Munson,  born  September 
16,  1853;  died  June  25,  1911,  at  "Glenwood."  She  is  a 
lady  of  rare  scholarly  attainments,  of  imposing  appearance 
and  charming  personality,  and  was  on  December  13,  1916, 
accepted  as  a  member  of  the  National  Society  of  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution,  National  Number  126582, 
with  two  bars,  ancestors  Francis  Kittredge,  surgeon,  and 
Col.  Thomas  M.  Green  (q.  v.),  but  entitled  to  a  third  bar, 
ancestor  Corporal  Ebenezer  Eaton  (q.  v.).  No  issue  by 
her  second  marriage;  by  the  first  the  following:     ist,  Mary 

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122  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

Louise  (Loulie),  born  February  21.  1870;  married  in  Hous- 
ton, Texas,  December  31,  1888,  George  Burgess,  of  Gon- 
zales, Texas,  born  in  Wharton  County,  Texas,  September 
21,  1861,  and  a  member  of  the  United  States  House  of 
Representatives  for  sixteen  consecutive  years.  2nd.  George 
William,  a  physicion  and  surgeon,  born  December  26,  1871  ; 
died  September  16,  1915;  married  January  i,  1906,  his 
cousin,  Olivia  Amanda  Kittredge.  No  issue.  Dr.  Sims 
was  a  self  made  man,  and  by  his  own  efforts  succeeded  in 
educating  himself,  being  graduated  from  the  Gross  Medical 
College,  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  University,  at  Denver, 
Colorado,  Class  of  1897;  he  practiced  his  profession  for  a 
short  time  at  Denver,  then  moved  to  Texas,  practiced  at 
Kerrville;  was  assistant  surgeon  in  the  war  with  Spain 
(1898),  of  Third  Texas  Infantry,  serving  at  Camp  Mabry, 
Austin,  Texas,  at  Fort  Clark,  Texas,  and  at  Fort  Mcintosh, 
Laredo,  Texas;  was  special  examiner,  appointed  by  the 
War  Department,  in  mustering  out  the  Third  Infantry 
(1899);  was  appointed,  on  recommendation  of  United 
States  Army  officers.  Contract  Surgeon  (1899),  and 
ordered  to  the  Phillipines,  whither  he  went  on  the  trans- 
port Morgan  City,  having  a  journey  of  great  peril  and  nar- 
row escape.  In  1906,  after  the  marriage  noted,  he  took  a 
post-graduate  course  at  the  Polyclinic  Department  of  the 
Tulane  University,  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  then  removed 
to  Texas,  and  practiced  at  Karnes  City  and  Falls  City  until 
1910,  when  he  went  to  San  Antonio,  and  there  practiced 
until  his  death.  He  was  a  close  student  of  "Anaesthesia," 
and  wrote  an  exhaustive  work  on  "Psycho-Dynamics;"  he 
was,  shortly  before  his  death,  nominated  by  the  People's 
Municipal  League,  of  San  Antonio,  Texas,  for  Commis- 
sioner of  Sanitation  and  Parks  and  Public  Property,  but 
after  an  exciting  race  was  defeated. 

3RD.  WILLIAM  NICHOLS,  bom  March  10,  1873;  died 
July  10,  1885. 

4TH.  RUFFiN  MORiNG,  born  November  20,  1875;  died 
in  Houston,  Texas,  August  2,  1891. 

(4)  Kate  Josephine,  a  first  honor  graduate  of  the 
Locquet  Institute,  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  and  a  highly 
cultivated  musician,  was  born  November  14,  1852;  died 
September  6,  1905;  married  at  "Glenwood"  in  1878  to 
William  Henry  Gibson,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  bom  1844; 
died  1884,  in  New  York.  Issue:  Ethel  May  Gibson,  born 
August  5,  1880,  now  residing  in  Mount  Vernon,  New  York. 


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(5)  Evelyn,  distinctive  in  her  aptitude  for  mathematics 
and  practical  business,  and  her  optimistic  qualities,  was 
born  October  4,  1855;  married  July  7,  1881,  to  John  B. 
Foley,  of  Assumption  Parish,  Louisiana,  born  July  2^, 
1854;  died  December  14,  1910.  Issue:  ist.  W'xlliard  Jones, 
born  June  13,  1882;  married  October  14,  1908,  Gertrude  A. 
Askev^,  of  Minnesota  Junction,  Wisconsin.  One  child,  Wil- 
lard  Jones,  born  September  12,  1909.  2nd.  John  B.,  Jr., 
born  May  5,  1886;  died  December  9,  1886.  3rd.  Evelyn 
FJodxe,  bom  December  5,  1887;  married  June  18,  1913, 
William  Whitmell  Pugh,  physician  and  surgeon,  of  As- 
sumption Parish.  Their  children,  William  Whitmell,  junior, 
born  March  25,  1914,  and  John  Foley,  born  December  12, 
T915.  4th.  Arthur  Moring,  born  August  28,  1889,  He  en- 
tered the  service  as  a  volunteer,  September,  191 7,  in  the 
War  with  Germany ;  went  into  the  training  camp  at  Camp 
Lee,  Virginia,  in  January,  1918,  and  was  recommended  for 
commission  as  Second  Lieutenant,  but  before  receiving  it, 
was  sent  across  as  master  engineer  of  the  Corps  of  Civil 
Engineer,  and  served  to  the  end  of  the  war.  5th.  Kirkland 
Green,  bom  August  4,  1892;  died  same  date.  6th.  Mary 
Louise,  born  February  14,  1896. 

(6)  Isabel,  remarkable  for  her  classic  beauty,  was  born 
July  31,  1857,  at  "Glenwood;"  died  November  16,  1898, 
at  San  Antonio,  Texas;  married  at  "Glenwood"  December 
7,  1882,  to  Judge  John  Warner  Johnson,  born  August  2, 
1830,  at  Bridgeport,  West  Virginia.  One  child,  Loula 
Belle,  born  Houston,  Texas,  February  28,  1884;  married 
January  4,  1907,  at  "Glenwood"  Charles  Williard  Black,  of 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  born  January  25,  1879.  Their  children: 
Virginia  Louise,  born  December  8,  1910,  and  Barbara,  born 
May  24,  1913,  both  at  Los  Angeles,  California. 

(7)  Nellie  May,  a  woman  of  great  energy  and  mas- 
culine force  of  character,  was  bom  May  3,  1859;  died  June 
21,  1895;  married  April  28,  1881,  Edward  Pugh  Munson, 
of  Assumption  Parish,  Louisiana,  who  after  her  death  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Clarendon  (Jones)  Sims  (q.  v.).  He  was 
born  September  16,  1853;  died  June  25,  1911.  Issue:  ist. 
Olivia,  born  in  April,  1882,  married  March,  1914,  her  cousin 
Ephraim  Ewing  (q.  v.)  ;  child,  Olivia,  born  December  28, 
1915.  2nd.  Nellie  May,  bom  September  8,  1883;  married 
October  2,  1907,  Aubrey  Bartlett,  born  about  1877,  of  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana.  Children,  Nellie  May,  bom  August  5, 
1908,    Cosame    Julian,    born    July    i,    1913,    Olivia,    born 


124  The  Ewixg  Genealogy  wrni  Cognate  Branches 

October  15,  191 1,  and  Walter,  born  Februar>',  191 5.  yd. 
Lilian  Kittredge,  born  November  24,  1886;  married  March 
10,  1909,  Clarence  Clifford  Barton  of  Assumption  Parish, 
Louisiana,  born  in  1887.  Children:  Lilian  M.,  born  May 
2"/,  1910;  Rebecca,  born  April  13,  1912;  Elizabeth,  bom 
May  13,  1914,  and  Flora,  born  December  i,  1915.  4th. 
Myrtle,  born  December  21,  1889;  married  June  11,  191 1, 
to  her  cousin,  Presley  Kittredge  Ewing  11,  born  July  11, 
1891.  Children:  Mrytle,  born  March  15,  1912;  Presley 
Kittredge  III,  born  August  13,  1914,  and  Fayette  Clay,  born 
November  5,  1913.  5th.  Stephen  Clarendon,  born  Septem- 
ber 28,  1892;  married  April  28,  1917,  Adele  Pratt,  daughter 
of  Dr.  George  Pratt,  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana.  6th. 
Edward  Preston,  born  July  26,  1894;  married  February  17, 
191 7,  Gertrude  Graner. 

He,  Edward  P.  Munson,  husband  of  Nellie  May,  was  a 
man  of  remarkable  business  capacity,  and  was  one  of  the 
wealthiest  and  most  highly  esteemed  sugar  planters  of 
Louisiana. 

(8)  Florence  Olivia,  possessed  of  a  rare  and  beautiful 
voice,  was  born  January  i,  1861 ;  died  July  31,  1901  ;  mar- 
ried James  J.  McConnell,  M.  D.,  of  Georgia ;  died  1903 ;  no 
issue. 

(9)  Lilian,  the  prototype  of  her  beautiful  grandmother 
(q.  v.),  was  born  August  13,  1862;  died  December  8,  1897; 
married  August,  1890.  Children:  ist.  Emma  Lucile,  born 
April  12,  1891 ;  married  May  i,  1914,  Arthur  Boyd  Reese, 
born  November  10,  1881.  Child:  Arthur  Boyd,  Jr.,  born 
November  30,  191 5.  2nd.  Lilian  Mary  Louise  Jamison, 
born  July  15,  1896. 

(10)  GEORGE  wiLLARD,  M.  D.,  bom  July  21,  1865;  died 
May  9,  1899;  he  married  Rosa  Lee  Dickson;  no  issue. 

3.  Orvilie  Milo,  born  December  26,  1827;  died  October 
16,  1829. 

4.  Joseph  Kirkland  Green,  born  October  4,  1830;  died 
September  17,  1897;  married  Fannie  Mary  Ivy  on  Decem- 
ber 4,  1866.  He  was  graduated  from  Harvard,  Class  1851, 
which  became  famous  for  having  produced  from  its  sixty- 
four  members   eleven  distinguished  professors.     Issue : 

( 1 )  Ivy,  a  lawyer,  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana ;  married 
Marietta  Larousini,  having  a  child,  Frances. 

(2)  Willoughby  Eaton,  a  physician  and  surgeon,  of 
Napoleonville,  Louisiana;  married  ist.  a  widow,  Marie 
(Fouche)    Girard,  who  died  September  17,   1915.     Issue: 


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a  son  Willoughby.  He  married  (second)  Corinne  (Suchon) 
Hodges,  daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  Suchon,  in  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  March  14,  igiy. 

(3)  OHvia  Amanda,  married  her  cousin,  George  Will- 
iam Sims   (q.  v.)  ;  no  issue. 

5.  ELIZA  JOSEPHINE,  wife  of  Fayette  Clay  Ewing,  M.  D. 
(q.  v.). 

6.  Olivia  Corinna,  born  October  6,  1835;  died  October 
15,  1916,  while  residing  at  her  picturesque  home,  Sewanee, 
Tennessee;  she  was  a  scholarly  and  highly  cultured  woman; 
the  widow  of  George  Wesley  Race,  born  April  2y,  1821, 
died  June  17,  1881,  who  was  a  distinguished  lawyer  of  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  and  a  member  of  the  noted  firm  of 
Race,  Foster  &  E.  T.  Merrick ;  her  marriage  to  him  was  at 
"Elm  Hall,"  April  19,  1855.  The  issue  of  this  m.arriage 
were  five  promising  children,  who  all  died  in  childhood, 
the  first  not  named,  and  the  others,  Stephen  Kittredge, 
Corinna  Elizabeth,  George  Eaton,  and  Fannie  Louise. 

This  daughter,  Olivia  Corinna  (Kittredge)  Race,  was  a 
member  of  the  National  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  National  Number  125569,  entitled  to 
two  bars,  applications  having  been  granted  under  two  an- 
cestors, original  under  Surgeon  Francis  Kittredge,  M.  D., 
and  supplemental  under  soldier.  Col.  Thomas  M.  Green, 
husband  of  Martha  Wills*  (q.  v.).  Copies  of  these  appli- 
cations which  may  be  obtained,  at  a  cost  of  twenty-five 
cents  each,  along  with  blank  applications,  from  the  Regis- 
trar General  of  the  National  Society,  Daughters  of  Ameri- 
can Revolution,  Continental  Memorial  Hall,  Washington, 
Districtof  Columbia,  will  be  useful  as  guides  in  preparing 
applications  for  membership  by  descendants  of  Dr.  Ebenezer 
Eaton  Kittredge  or  of  Col.  Thomas  M.  Green. 

DR.    KITTREDGe's   SECOND    MARRIAGE 

Three  years  after  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  Martha 
Wills  Green,  Dr.  Kittredge,  on  September  20,  1839, 
married 

ANN   ELIZABETH    KELLY 

born  in  Illinois,  December  15,  1819,  then  of  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana;  died  February  26,  1889;  she  was  a  very  lovable 
character,  and  highly  esteemed  by  all  who  knew  her  for 
her  many  splendid  qualities  of  noble  womanhood.  The 
issue  of  this  marriage : 

*She   was   also  entitled   to   a   third   bar,   under    Corporal    Ebenezer   Eaton. 


126  TiiE  EwiNG  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

I.  Mary  Ann,  noted  in  the  family  for  her  strength  of 
character  and  fixed  convictions,  was  born  October  29, 
1840,  at  "Elm  Hall;"  died  September  19,  1915;  married 
(first)  April  11,  1861,  Joseph  Benson  Whittington,  born 
September  20,  1836;  died  November  12,  1884;  he  was  a 
prominent  lawyer  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  and  after- 
wards of  Napoleonville,  Louisiana;  she  married  (second) 
on  February  27,  1889,  at  Areola,  Louisiana,  W.  S.  Goodwin, 
of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  who  died  April  10,  1895.  No  is- 
sue of  this  latter  marriage,  but  by  her  first  marriage  the 
issue  was,  as  follows : 

(i)  Joseph  Kittredge,  born  March  26,  1864;  married 
October  15,  1888,  Marie  de  Gravelle,  of  Patterson,  I^u- 
isiana,  born  December  19,  1863;  died  January  13,  1902. 
Children:  St.  Clair  Joseph,  born  August  30,  1889;  Gladis 
lone,  born  September  30,  1891 ;  Mary  Jessie,  bom  October 
19,  1893;  Leila  Marie,  born  April  12,  1895,  died  April  19, 
1896;  Lucille  Marie,  born  September  27,  1896;  Marion 
Elizabeth,  born  January  22,  1898;  Mary  Adele,  born  Dec  .r.- 
ber  15,  1900,  and  Joseph  Kittredge,  junior,  bom  December 
IS,  1900. 

(2)  Harry  Kirkland,  bom  July  19,  1867;  married 
October  6,  1897,  DoUie  Belle  Splane,  of  Washington,  Lou- 
isiana, bom  April  22,  1867.  Children :  Harry  Kirkland, 
junior,  bom  September  14,  1898;  Mary  Belle,  bom  Novem- 
ber 3,  1901 ;  died  February  25,  1902,  and  Mildred  Louise, 
born  May  2y,  1903. 

(3)  Mary  Louise,  born  October  19,  1869;  died  August 
18,  1901 ;  married  January  27,  1897,  Robert  L.  Baker,  of 
Hazelhurst,  Mississippi,  bom  October  28,  1868,  now  a 
sugar  planter  of  Assumption  Parish,  near  Napoleonville. 
Louisiana.  Children :  Joseph  Kittredge,  bom  October  1 5, 
1897;  Ralph  Douglas,  born  November  10.  1898,  and  Mary- 
Louise,  born  August  9,  1901. 

(4)  Bessie  Kittredge,  born  June  21,  1873;  died  Febru- 
ary I,  1916;  married  June  17,  1899,  William  M.  Crawford, 
merchant,  of  Washington,  Louisiana,  born  May  4,  1863. 
Children:  William  Benson,  born  April  14,  1900;  Louise 
Whittington,  bom  April  14,  191 1,  died  April  14,  191 1,  and 
Mary  Delia,  born  April  26,  1912. 

(5)  Marion  Wilmer,  born  March  24,  1875;  married 
June  22,  1908,  Douglas  Eldridge  Rivers,  of  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  bom  September  3,  1875.  Children:  Bessie 
Whittington,  born  May  20,  1909;  Enid  Louise,  bora  Decem- 


TiiE  EwiNG  Genealogy  wmi  Cognate  Branches  127 

ber  Q-j,  1910,  died  July  25,  19 12;  Lena  Marie,  born  Septem- 
ber 26,  1912,  died  November  22,,  1912;  Douglas  Eldridge, 
junior,  born  June  2,  19 14,  and  MoUie  Kittredge,  born  July 

12,  1915. 

2.  Henry  Eaton,  born  at  "Elm  Hall"  July  12,  1842; 
died  at  Glasgow,  Kentucky,  October  19,  1862. 

3.  Jessie  Amanda,  of  the  attractive  Saxon  type  of 
beauty,  was  born  at  "Elm  Hall,"  January  6,  1845;  died  at 
Jackson,  Tennessee,   December  3,   1883;  married  October 

13,  1869,  Edward  Benton  McNeil,  a  Baptist  minister,  born 
August  13,  1837;  died  August  1904,  at  Jackson,  Tennessee. 
Issue  of  this  marriage: 

(i)  Eaton  Kittredge,  a  physician  and  surgeon,  born  at 
Winchester  Springs,  Tennessee,  October  9,  1868,  now  of  La 
Mesa,  New  Mexico. 

(2)  Edward  Benton,  Junior,  a  lawyer,  born  at  Long- 
view,  Mississippi,  November  28,  1869;  died  at  El  Paso, 
Texas,  August  14,  1908. 

(3)  Walter  Anderson,  a  lawyer  and  real  estate  broker 
of  San  Antonio  and  Mercedes,  Texas,  born  at  Longview, 
Mississippi,  December  22,  iSy2. 

(4)  Harr}^  Pendleton,  born  at  Longview,  Mississippi, 
December  26,  1873,  now  a  farmer  at  La  Feria,  Texas. 

(5)  Lessie  Benning,  born  at  Longview,  Mississippi. 
August  6,  1875;  died  a  few  weeks  later. 

(6)  Robert  Irving,  a  physician  and  surgeon  of  El  Paso, 
Texas,  born  at  "Elm  Hall,"  January  24,  1877;  rnarried  in 
Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  June  10,  1908,  Eliza- 
beth Keeling,  born  in  Memphis,  Tennessee,  May  15,  1885. 
Children,  Robert  Irving,  junior,  born  at  El  Paso,  Texas, 
July  21,  1913,  and  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  at  El  Paso,  Texas, 
May  20,  1916. 

(7)  Percy  Rutledge,  born  at  Jackson,  Tennessee,  Nov- 
ember 30,  1883;  died  February  2^,  1909. 

4.  Emma,  a  beautiful  and  buoyant  girl,  of  marked  ex- 
ecutive ability,  was  born  at  "Elm  Hall"  July  16,  1847;  <^ic<l 
in  Donaldsonville,  Louisiana,  July  9,  191 1;  married  March 
30,  1869,  Robert  Nicholls  Sims,  a  lawyer  of  distinguished 
ability,  born  February  22,  1841 ;  died  May  27,  1899.  Issue 
of  this  marriage,  as  follows : 

( I )     Robert  Nicholls   Sims,  who  has  held  high  official 
positions  in  Louisiana,  including  Bank  Examiner,  his  pres- 
ent position;  he  was  born  November  28,   1870,  in  Ascen- 
sion  Parish,   Louisiana;  married   April   30,    1891,   Jaunita 
9 


128  The  Ewtnq  Gexealogy  wrrn  Cognate  Braxciies 

Dalferes  (De  Alverez),  born  January  lo,  1872,  in  Ascen- 
sion Parish,  Louisiana.  Children:  ist.  Harry  Vernon, 
born  February  11,  1892,  went  to  Bingham  School,  North 
Carolina,  two  years ;  was  graduated  from  Louisiana  State 
University,  class  1910-1911,  and  from  Tulane  Medical 
School,  191 5,  and  was  Interne  of  the  Charity  Hospital,  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana.  He  volunteered  in  the  War  with  Ger- 
many, and  became  captain,  serving  as  physician  of  2nd  Bat- 
talion, 5th  Regiment  Marines,  2nd  Division.  2nd.  Raton 
Kittredge,  born  December  19,  1893;  died  August  10,  1894. 
3rd.  Nita,  born  March  9,  1895,  in  Ascension  Parish,  Lou- 
isiana, a  graduate  with  high  honors  from  Washington 
Seminary,  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  and  remark- 
ably attractive  and  accomplished.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
National  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion (National  Number  1 26109),  with  two  bars,  being  for 
Surgeon  Francis  Kittredge,  and  Corporal  Ebenezer  Eatc  n  ; 
and  under  these  ancestors,  we  may  here  observe,  all  female 
descendants,  as  much  as  eighteen  years  old,  of  Dr.  Ebenezer 
Eaton  Kittredge,  regularly  connecting  with  either  of  his 
marriages,  are  eligible  to  this  society.  She  (Nita  Sims) 
married  on  November  22,  1916,  Hopkins  Payne  Brea;^eale, 
a  lawyer  of  Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana,  born  October  16, 
1886,  son  of  Hopkins  Payne  Breazeale  and  Camilla  Lachs; 
he  is  a  graduate  of  Yale,  and  the  scion  of  a  noted  family 
of  lawyers,  including  his  father  and  three  uncles,  Ross 
Breazeale,  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana;  Drew  B.  Breazeale, 
of  Natchitoches,  Louisiana,  and  Phanor  P.  Breazeale,  form- 
erly a  United  States  Congressman.  He  also  volunteered  for 
service  in  the  World  War,  serving  with  the  358th  Infantry, 
90th  Division,  and  was  promoted  to  the  captaincy  "for  gal- 
lantry in  action"  during  the  offensives  in  September,  191 8. 

(2)  Eaton  Kittredge,  physician  and  surgeon,  of  Don- 
aldsonville,  Louisiana,  born  August  8,  1872;  married  July 
30,  1896,  Alice  Kline,  born  February  i,  1878,  died  August 

15,  1914;  he  married  (second)  December  7,  1915,  Dorothy 
Prosser.  Children  of  first  marriage :  Eaton  Kittredge, 
born  October   11,    1897;   Christian   Kline,   bom  November 

16,  1899;  Robert  Nicholls,  born  November  12,  1901, 
drowned  February  13,  1910,  and  Alice,  born  August  2. 
1904. 

(3)  Marguerite,  born  May  10,  1874;  died  December 
29,  1874. 

(4)  Francis    Kelly,    born    October    i,    1875;    married 


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(first)  January  20,  1903,  Lavinia  Barton.  Children:  Lavinia, 
bom  September  5,  1904,  and  Grace,  born  December  16, 
1901.  Separated  1908,  divorced  1910;  married  (second) 
191 1,  Ernestine  Courreges.  Children:  Ernestine,  born 
January  15,  1912;  Emma  Kittredge,  born  December  j8, 
1913,  and  Francis  Kelly,  junior,  born  August  3,   191 5. 

(5)  Harry  Vernon  born  August  4,  1877;  died  January 
19,  1888. 

(6)  Emma,  born  September  11,  1878;  married  April 
25,  1906,  Arthur  Crownover,  an  eminent  lawyer  of  Win- 
chester, Tennessee,  born  November  16,  1874,  son  of  Wil- 
liam Crownover,  a  farmer,  and  great  grandson  of  Joseph 
Crownover,  a  Revolutionary  soldier  of  Virginia.  He  is  a 
graduate  of  the  University  of  the  South,  at  Sewanee, 
Tennessee,  where  he  took  the  highest  rank  in  the  law  de- 
partment. He  has  been  favorably  mentioned  for  Governor 
of  the  State.  Children:  Arthur,  born  September  2j,  1907; 
Emma,  born  December  18,  1909;  Robert  NichoUs  Sims, 
born  January  15,  1912,  and  Margaret  Heloise,  born  Febru- 
ary 7,  1914. 

(7)  Ann  E.,  born  October  25,  1881 ;  married  June  17, 
1908,  Llewellyn  Alexander  Williams,  now  of  Crowley,  Lou- 
isiana. Children,  Anne  A.,  born  May  25,  1909;  Llewellyn 
Alexander,  born  September  19,  1910,  and  Sims  Cunning- 
ham, born  July  30,   1912. 

(8)  Heloise,  born  August  12,  18S3;  married  December 
5,  1905,  Granville  D.  Bentley,  a  journalist  of  Donaldson- 
ville,  Louisiana. 

5.  Francis  Robert,  born  at  "Elm  Hall"  December  17, 
1849;  di^d  St.  Claire  Plantation,  Louisiana,  June  2,  1902, 
unmarried  and  without  issue. 

6.  Lucie  Estelle,  very  popular  in  society,  winning  and 
winsome,  was  born  at  "Elm  Hall,"  January  17,  1853;  died 
at  Jackson,  Mississippi,  September  9,  1918;  married  March 
24,  1881,  Elijah  Donald  Barton,  born  Orange  County,  North 
Carolina,  November  10,  1829,  died  St.  James  Parish,  Lou- 
isiana, June  1-8,  1895.     Issue  : 

(i)  Bonnie  Carrie,  born  at  "Elm  Hall,"  Januarv  9, 
1882. 

(2)  Robert  Ruff  in,  born  St.  James  Parish,  Louisiana, 
January  15,  1883;  married  Rutli  Adele  Potts,  May  25, 
T908.  at  Chehalis,  Washington.  Children:  ist.  Robert 
Ruffin,  born  at  Jackson,  Mississippi,  August  25,  1910.  2nd. 
Elijah  Donald,  born  at  Jackson,  Mississippi,  May  14,  1912. 


130  The  Ewing  Genealogy  wnn  Cognate  Bbanches 

(3)  Sallie,  born  St.  James  Parish,  Louisiana,  July  17, 
1885. 

(4)  Frank  Kittredge,  born  St.  James  Parish,  Louisiana, 
August  23,  1886. 

7.  Carrie,  remarkably  gifted  as  a  vocalist,  was  Ix^rn  at 
"Elm  Hall,"  March  21,  1855;  died  June  11,  1890;  married 
at  "Elm  Hall"  March  21,  1876,  Carroll  Barton,  born  Nov- 
ember 12,  1853,  died  June  12,  1906.    Issue: 

(i)  Carroll,  junior  (first),  born  July  31,  1877;  died 
August  I,   1880. 

(2)  Clara  Smith,  born  April  5,  1880;  married  Septem- 
ber 15,  1903,  Wharton  Green,  born  October  17,  1879. 
Children:  Margaret  Barton,  born  Washington,  District  of 
Columbia,  May  8,  1905;  Clarissa  Packard,  born  East 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  June  28,  1908,  and  Wharton,  junior, 
born  East  Orange,  December  19,  1910. 

(3)  Maud  Ethel  and  Ashton  Clifford  (twins),  born 
August  28,  1883;  died  former,  September  11,  1883,  and 
latter,  September  18,  1883. 

(4)  Samuel  Kennedy,  born  September  15,  1882;  died 
December  i,  1908,  at  Jackson,  Mississippi. 

(5)  Clifton  Ivy,  born  December  3,  1884;  died  April 
16.   1885. 

(6)  Arvon  Allen,  born  November  4,  1886;  died  March 
15,  1887. 

(7)  Carrie  Kittredge,  born  at  Magnolia  Plantation, 
December  18,  1887;  married  July  18,  1906,  Charles  Man- 
ship  Gordon,  born  at  Jackson,  Mississippi,  November  4, 
1883,  died  October  23,  1910.  Children:  Carolyn  Barton, 
born  May  5,  1907 ;  Charles  Manship,  born  December  2^, 
1909.  She  married  (second)  December  2T„  1916,  f.ogan 
Haynes  McLean. 

(8)  Carroll  Barton,  junior  (second),  born  June  Q, 
1890;  married  in  Jackson,  Mississippi,  October  18,  191 1, 
Margaret  Wharton  Green,  born  December  6,  1889. 
Child:  Margaret  Green,  born  January  2,  1913. 

8.  Tola,  in  personal  attractiveness  much  like  her  sister 
Jessie,  was  bom  at  W^inchestor  Springs,  Tennessee,  Septem- 
ber t6,  1859;  died  in  Memphis,  Tennessee,  May  17,  1903. 
She  was  married  October  6,  1885,  to  Lucius  T.  M.  Canada, 
born  July  12,  1861,  a  prominent  lawyer  of  Memphis, 
Tennessee.  Issue:  A  son.  Barton  Kittredge,  born  Febru- 
ary 13,  1891. 

9.  Oena,  the  sturdiest  and  most  practical  of  the  daugh- 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  131 

ters,  was  bom  at  "Elm  Hall,"  April  18,  1862,  afterwards 
of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana;  married  at  "Elm  Hall,"  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1882,  Herbert  William  Barton,  a  sugar  planter, 
bom  November  29,  1858,  in  Assumption  Parish,  Louisiana, 
died  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  October  9,  1902.  Issue 
of  this  marriage,  as  follows : 

(i)  Norwood  Packard,  born  November  28,  1882,  in 
Assumption  Parish,  Louisiana;  married  January  20,  1909, 
Ellen  (Nellie)  McDermott,  born  August  3,  1885,  in  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana.  Children:  ist.  Norwood  Packard, 
junior,  born  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  April  4,  1910; 
2nd.  William  Andrezv,  bom  in  Mercedes,  Texas,  December 

31.  1913- 

(2)  Mabel  Lee,  born  in  Assumption  Parish,  Louisiana, 
July  12,  1884;  married  May  28,  1908,  in  Crowley,  Lou- 
isiana, James  Dickerson  Carlton,  of  that  town,  who  was 
born  in  Hardin  County,  Kentucky,  July  7,  1878. 

(3)  Ethel  May,  born  in  Assumption  Parish,  Louisiana, 
September  12,  1885,  afterwards  of  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana. 

(4)  Maude  Marion,  born  in  Assumption  Parish,  Lou- 
isiana, July  8,  1889,  afterwards  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana. 

(5)  Herbert  William,  junior,  born  in  Terrebonne 
Parish,  Louisiana,  October  6,  1894,  afterwards  of  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana. 


CHAPTER  XIX. 

THE  GREEN   TREE:    MATERNAL   LINEAGE  OF   ELIZA   JOSEPHINE 
KITTREDGE,   WIFE  OF  DR.    FAYETTE  CLAY  EWING. 

This  was  one  of  the  most  renowned  of  the  aristocratic 
Southern  families;  it  was  of  English  descent,  hailed  from 
Virginia,  and  settled  in  Mississippi,  where  the  different 
branches  of  the  family  owned  and  occupied  extensive  and 
wealthy  estates,  the  seats  of  their  luxurious  homes,  which 
were  the  centers  of  elegance,  culture  and  refinement  of 
that  high  type  distinctive  of  the  first  families  of  the  old 
South,  and  which  have  perhaps,  tout  ensemble,  never  been 
excelled  in  the  annals  of  time. 

The  family  originated  in  America  with 

THOMAS  GREEN   I* 

and  his  wife  Martha,  who  came  from  England,  their  birth- 
place, to  Virginia  at  an  early  period  of  its  history,  bringing 
with  them  two  daughters,  one  of  whom  married  Blocksom 
and  the  other  Eaton.  During  the  voyage  a  son  was  born 
to  them,  Thomas,  nicknamed  "The  Seagull"  because  of  his 
birth  on  the  ocean. 

THOMAS  GREEN  II 

called  "The  Seagull,"  son  of  Thomas  and  Martha  Green 
(q.  v.),  is  said  to  have  been  a  sea  merchant;  he  married 
Martha  Filmer,  daughter  of  Major  Henry  Filmer,  a  British 
officer,  whose  wife's  name  was  Elizabeth,  both  born  in 
England. 

This  Henry  Filmer,  the  father  of  Martha  (Filmer) 
Green,  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from 
James  City  County,  Virginia,  in  the  year  1642-1643.^ 

Children  of  the  marriage  of  Thomas  and  Martha 
(Filmer)  Green: 

1.  John,  wife's  name  Elizabeth.  Children:  (i) 
Thomas,  who  moved  to  South  Carolina,  married  and  left 
issue,  and  (2)  Elizabeth,  who  married  Payne  and  left  issue: 

2.  THOMAS   (q.  V.) 

3.  Elizabeth,  married  John  Crawley,  left  issue. 

*We  are  largely  indebted  for  the  pedigree  of  the  Green  line  to  the  Fil- 
son  Club  Publications,  No.  14,  by  Hon.  Z.  F.  Smith  and  Mrs.  Mary  Rogers 
Clay,  Members  of  the  Club,  same  published  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  in  1899,  John 
P.   Morton   &   Co.,   Printers. 

^Hening's  Statutes,  Vol.  1,  p.  239;  Stanard's  Colonial  Virginia  Register, 
p.   63. 

(132) 


The  PAWING  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  133 

4.  Rebecca,  married  (first)  Condon.  Issue:  daughter, 
Mary,  married  William  Booker,  of  Amelia  County,  Vir- 
ginia. She  married  (second)  Marston.  Issue:  WiUiam, 
Elizabeth,  Thomas  and  John. 

5.  Mary,  married  (first)  James  Wilkerson.  Issue: 
Priscilla  and  Sarah.  She  married  (second)  Thomas 
Walker.     Issue :     Thomas  and  Elizabeth. 

6.  Abram,  of  Amelia  County,  Virginia,  was  a  colonel. 
He  married  and  left  issue:  (i)  Sally,  married  Terry 
Keen;  (2)  Abram,  married  and  left  issue;  (3)  Susanna, 
married  Vodkin;  (4)  William,  married  Miss  Archer  and 
left  issue;  and  (5)   Obedience,  married  William  Green. 

7.  Filmer,  married  Mary  Walker.  Children :  Elizabeth, 
Ann,  Mary,  Filmer,  Edmund  and  Susanna. 

8.  William,  married  Amy  Clay.  Children :  Thomas, 
Patty  (married  W^illiam  Williamson),  Filmer,  William, 
John,  and  Amy  (married  Edward  Moseley,  of  Roanoke, 
Virginia.). 

9.  Hannah,  married  James  Turner.  Children :  Two 
sons  who  died  young. 

THOMAS  GREEN   III 

son  of  Thomas  and  Martha  (Filmer)  Green  (q.  v.),  was 
born  1665;  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  enterprises  in 
James  City  County,  Virginia,  during  the  earlier  part  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  dying  in  the  year  1730;  he  married 
about  1712,  Elizabeth  Marston,  born  November  25,  1692; 
died  August  11,  1759,  having  survived  her  husband  twenty- 
nine  years;  her  will,  dated  November  12,  1758,  was  pro- 
bated January  24,  1760;  she  was  the  daughter,  the  eldest 
child,  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Marvel)  Marston. 
Children  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Marston)   Green: 

1.  A  daughter,  who  married  Thomas  Coles  or  Cowles. 
Issue :    A  son,  Thomas. 

2.  Elizabeth,  married  (first)  Dawson.  Born  from  the 
union  a  son,  Samuel.  She  married  (second)  Leonard 
Cheatam.  Issue :  Leonard,  Abbey,  Edward  and  James, 
besides  several  daughters. 

3.  William,  died  without  issue. 

4.  Lucy,  born  171 7;  married  Henry  Clay,  1735. 

5.  Martha  (Patsy),  born  1719;  married  Charles  Clay, 
1 741. 

6.  THOMAS    MARSTON    GREEN     (q.    V.). 


134  The  Ewino  Gejn^ealogy  wttii  Cognate  Branches 

7.  Rebecca,  married  Francis  Jones,  removed  to  South 
Carolina. 

8.  Marston,  of  Amelia  County,  Virginia,  father  of 
Grief  Green,  a  very  prominent  lawyer. 

General  Green  Clay,  of  Kentucky,  was  a  son  of  one  of 
the  marriages  noted;  he  became  conspicuous  in  the  early 
history  of  that  State ;  he  was  a  gallant  officer  of  the  Conti- 
nental Army,  and  a  cousin  of  Honorable  Henry  Clay  of 
Kentucky;  he  was  the  father  of  two  sons,  Brutus  Junius 
and  Cassius  Marcellus,  the  latter  of  whom  was  from  early 
manhood  a  pronounced  adherent  to  the  Abolition  cause, 
and  during  President  Lincoln's  Administration  represented 
the  United  States  at  the  Court  of  Russia. 

THOMAS   MARSTON    GREEN* 

son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Marston)  Green  (q.  v.), 
was  born  in  James  City  County,  Virginia,  November  19, 
1723;  died  in  Jefferson  County,  Mississippi,  1805;  mar- 
ried November  21,  1752,  Martha  WiUs,  born  March  31, 
1734;  died  1783-5,  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana;  she  was  the 
eldest  daughter  of  Filmer  Wills  and  his  wife,  Ann  Harwood. 

Major  William  Harwood,  the  father  of  Ann  Harwood, 
was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Warwick 
County,  Virginia,  year  1714/  and  for  many  years  Justice 
of  the  same  County;  he  died  June  2,  1737.' 

Children  of  Thomas  Marston  and  Martha  (Wills) 
Green : 

1.  Elizabeth,  born  October  21,  1753;  died  in  infancy. 

2.  Henry  Filmer,  born  November  11,  1755;  died  young; 
no  issue. 

3.  Thomas  Marston,  junior,  bom  February  6,  1758,  in 
James  City  County,  Virginia;  died  1812,  in  Jefferson 
County,  Mississippi;  was  Representative  of  the  Mississippi 
Territory  in  the  Seventh  Congress  of  the  United  States 
(1802-1803);  he  married  Martha  Kirkland,  February  15, 
1780,  who  died  November  15,  1805.  Children  (all  bom  in 
Jefferson  County,  Mississippi)  : 

(i)  Joseph  Kirkland,  born  November  16,  1780;  mar- 
ried about  1803,  Mildred  Meriwether  Cabell.'  Their  issue: 

*The  middle  name  appears  to  have  been  mostly  dropped  in  historic 
references   to  him,  the  usual   designation   being  "Col.   Thomas   Green." 

'Stanard's   Colonial   Virginia   Register,   p.   100. 

■^Va.    Gazette. 

-For  continuation  of  this  line,  see  "The  Cabells  and  Their  Kin,"  pp. 
306  et   seq. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cog  sath  Branches  135 

I  St.  Martha  Augusta,  born  January  31,  1806;  died  October 
10,  1864;  married  January  8,  1829,  Joseph  Eggleston  Jones, 
born  January  2,  1793,  died  April  17,  1852.  Children: 
Joseph  Cabell,  Thomas  Henry,  Eugene  D.,  Samuel  Cabell, 
Sarah  V.,  Archelaus  Kirkland,  Wm.  Syme,  Meriwether 
Lewis,  James  Railey,  Lucy  A.,  and  Meredith  Dabney.  2nd. 
Samuel  Cabell,  married  1832,  his  cousin  Augusta  Kirkland, 
daughter  of  Archelaus  and  Jane  (Green)  Kirkland,  latter 
sister  of  Joseph  Kirkland  (supra)  ;  no  issue.  3rd.  Lucy 
Ann  Green.  4th.  Sarah  Virginia,  married  Amnion  Han- 
cock, of  Lynchburg,  Virginia.  5th.  Thomas  Marston,  died 
young;  no  issue. 

(2)  Elizabeth,  born  January  18,  1783;  died  November 
15.  1805  ;  married  John  Davidson.  Issue  :  ist,  Thomas  Green, 
married  Miss  George,  of  Louisiana;  had  children.  2nd. 
Martha  Leminda,  married  Owen  Dorsey;  two  children. 
Holmes  and  Martha ;  former  married  Jane  West,  and  after- 
wards, Mrs.  Bowman,  of  Louisiana;  and  latter,  C.  H.  For- 
man,  both  having  children.  3rd.  John,  married  twice,  sup- 
posed to  have  descendants  in  Texas.  4th.  Filmer  William, 
and  5th.  Mary  Eliza,  both  of  w^hom  probably  died  before 
maturity. 

(3)  Mary  (Polly,*),  married  Charles  B.  Howell. 
Children:  ist.  Rebecca,  married  Thomas  Jefferson  Green, 
son  of  Abram,  brother  of  Thomas  M.  Green  (the  Congress- 
man), who  was  her  first  cousin  once  removed,  and  had 
children;  2nd.  Kesia,  married  Stephen  Forman.  Children: 
C.  H.  Forman  (married  Martha  Dorsey,  his  second  cousin 
as  above  stated);  Richard;  Mary,  married  Reed;  Patsy 
(married  Thomas  West,  her  cousin),  and  Stephen. 

(4)  Martha  Wills,*  married  John  Hopkins;  a  daughter, 
Mary  Jane,  married  Armistead  Bradford,  of  Tennessee. 
Children :  Thomas,  who  went  to  Texas,  and  Martha,  who 
married  Robert  (Bob)  Foster,  of  Nashville,  Tennessee. 
Thomas,  a  descendant  of  this  branch,  married  Susanna  Bis- 
land,  and  had  two  children,  Thomas  and  Alexander,  but  the 
information  we  have  obtained  leaves  it  uncertain  whether 
he  was  of  the  marriage  of  John  Hopkins  or  of  Armistead 
Bradford,  probably  the  son  above  mentioned  of  Armistead 
Bradford. 

(5)  Jane  Green,  married  Archelaus  Kirkland;  a  daugh- 

*A  conflict  appears  in  the  documents  before  us  as  to  which  of  the  sisters, 
M.-.rtha  and  Mary  (Polly),  married  Howell  and  which  Hopkins,  but  the 
text  seems  best  supported,  and  we  suggest  that  in  the  final  analysis,  at  this 
late  day,  the  wives  being  sisters  of  the  whole  blood,  the  only  difference  is 
in    a   name. 


136  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

ter  Augusta,  the  only  child  who  became  of  age,  married 
(first)  Samuel  Cabell  Green,  and  (second)  Blanton  Ellis, 
by  whom  she  had  two  children,  B.  Smith  and  Helen 
Augusta. 

(6)  Leminda,  born  July  5,  1761 ;  died  January  29,  1819; 
married  Major  Thomas  Hinds,*  hero  of  the  war  of  1812, 
ancestor  of  Captain  Thomas  Hinds  of  the  Confederate 
army. 

Major  Thomas  Hinds,  born  in  Burkley  County,  Virginia, 
January  19,  1780;  died  Jefferson  County,  Mississippi, 
August  23,  1840;  had  an  illustrious  career.  In  1806  he 
organized  for  defense  of  Mississippi  a  company  of  dragoons, 
his  first  known  act  of  public  service;  later,  at  the  battle  of 
New  Orleans  (war  1812)  he  covered  himself  with  immortal 
fame  by  his  marvelously  brave  attacks  on  the  British  while 
leading  as  Major  his  Mississippi  cavalry  company,  so  much 
so  that  his  company,  with  personal  mention  of  him,  was 
made  the  subject  of  a  laudatory  order  issued  by  Major 
General  Andrew  Jackson,  there  in  command,  on  January 
21,  1815.  Major  Hinds  (referred  to  as  General  Hinds) 
was  defeated  by  George  Poindexter  for  Governor  of  Miss- 
issippi in  1819,  but  the  next  year  (1820)  he  and  General 
Jackson  were  appointed  commissioners  to  negotiate  a  pur- 
chase from  the  Chocktaw  Indians  of  a  part  of  their  territory, 
and  in  1821  Hinds  County  was  named  for  him,  and  in  the 
same  year,  he  with  lieutenant  Governor  James  Patton  and 
Dr.  William  Lattimore,  were  appointed  by  the  Mississippi 
Legislature  as  commissioners  to  select  a  proper  site  for  the 
seat  of  government,  which  they  did,  choosmg  the  present 
city  of  Jackson,  naming  it  for  General  Jackson.  As  further 
recognition  of  Major  Hinds'  popularity  and  influence,  it 
may  be  noted  that  he  was  elected  to  Congress  in  1827. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Leminda  (Green)  Hinds:  John, 
died  in  infancy,  and  Howell,  married  (first)  Drusilla 
Cocks,  bom  September  i,  1809,  in  Jefferson  County, 
Mississippi;  died  April  9,  1841.  Issue*  Thomas,  born 
December  23,  1830;  died  in  Greenville,  Mississippi;  Wilkin, 
born  August  3,  1833,  and  Leminda,  born  April  29,  1835. 
He  (Howell  Hinds)  married  (second)  Mrs.  Mary 
Ann  (Coleman)  Lape.  Issue:  Alice,  John  and  Hov/ell, 
first  named  dying  when  about  twelve  years  old,  and  the 

*The  histories  pretty  generally  refer  to  him  as  General  Thomas  Hinds, 
but  as  he  was  Major  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  died  before  the  Mexican  war 
of  1848,  we  prefer  to   ascribe   to   him  the   title  of  Major. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  wrrn  Cognate  Branches  137 

other  two,  after  their  father's  death  (which  was  in  Green- 
ville, Mississippi,  May  13,  1S68),  going  with  their  mother 
to  Missouri. 

(7)  Rebecca,  born  August  19,  1793;  married  Dr. 
Thomas  McCoy.  Children :  Mary,  married  Kavanaugh, 
and  Leminda,  married  Woldrich,  of  Hinds  County, 
Mississippi. 

(8)  William  Marston,  born  January  10,  1796;  married 
Laura  McCaleb;  he  died  1829;  no  issue. 

(9)  Filmer  Wills,  born  May  25,  1798;  married  Emily 
H.  McCaleb.  Children:  ist.  William  H.,  no  issue;  2nd. 
Laura  Leminda,  married  Robert  Cox.  Issue :  William, 
Drusilla,  Emily,  Laura,  Ernestine,  Holmes,  and  Evie 
McCoy,  who  married  John  Cox  Inge,  of  Meridian, 
Mississippi. 

(10)  Augusta,  born  July  19,  1801;  married  J.  Remsen 
Holmes,  about  1819.  Children:  ist.  William  Remsen,  born 
November  22,  1820;  2nd.  Filmer  Wills,  born  October  5,  1822, 
died  in  infancy;  3rd.  Joseph  Forman,  born  July  24,  1824; 
4th.  Thomas  Marston,  born  April  10,  1826,  died  young. 
William  Remsen  Holmes  above  named,  married  June  22, 
1841,  Anna  Maria  Cox,  born  November  15,  1820.  Children: 
Howell  Hinds,  born  January  2,  1843,  Joseph  R.,  born  July 
26,  1844,  Martha  Augusta,  born  March  4,  1846;  William 
M.,  born  February  27,  1849;  Robert,  born  January  28, 
1851;  Alice  Anna,  born  December  10,  1852;  Josephine, 
born  November  12,  1854;  Aline,  born  April  27,  1856,  and 
Remsen,  born  December  26,  1857. 

5.  Abner  Green,  born  January  21,  1762:  died  February 
21,  i8r6;  married  November  i,  1784,  Mary  Hutchins,  born 
February  4,  1768;  died  February  4,  1825,  daughter  of  Col. 
Anthony  Pintard  Hutchins,  a  British  officer  who  was  re- 
tired before  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  of  his  wife,  Ann 
White.     Issue : 

(i)     Thomas  H.,  born  January  23,  1787;  no  issue. 

(2)  James,  born  January  24,  1789;  married  Mary  Met- 
calf;  his  portrait  now  hangs  in  the  library  of  his  nephew. 
Professor  William  W.  Carson,  of  the  University  of  Tennes- 
see, at  Knoxville. 

(3)  Mary  A.  M.,  born  January  24,  1791 ;  married  April 
17,  1807,  General  Cowles  Meade,  who  was  secretary  and 
also  Acting  Governor  of  Mississippi  Territory.  Issue:  ist. 
Cozvles,  married  Sallie  Wolfolk,  daughter  of  Joseph  Harris 
and    Martha    (Mitchell)    Wolfolk,    of   Woodford    County, 


138  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

Virginia.  Children :  Emma  and  Ada,  latter  married 
David  Saf frans  of  Mississippi.  Issue :  Meade,  Malvina 
and  Ada.  2nd.  Martha,  born  October  14,  1826;  married 
Samuel  Fisher,  1840.  Child :  Mary,  married  Thomas 
White. 

(4)  Eliza  Celeste,  born  November  26,  1792;  married 
(first)  Joseph  Bowmar,  (second)  David  Wood;  daughter 
by  first  marriage,  Mary  Caroline,  and  by  second  marriage, 
Eliza.  Latter  married  William  Conner,  who  was  First 
Lieutenant  of  the  famous  troop  of  cavalry  from  Natchez, 
commanded  by  Col.  (afterwards  General)  W.  T.  Martin, 
and  who  later,  after  becoming  Captain,  v,'as  promoted  to 
Colonel,  and  gallantly  gave  up  his  life  as  Gettysburg;  they 
left  a  number  of  children.  The  daughter,  Mary  Caroline, 
born  June  5,  1814,  married  Dr.  Charles  Abercrombie,  son 
of  Rev.  James  Abercrombie,  of  Philadelphia,  ]-'ermsylvania. 
Children,  among  others  who  died  without  known  issue, 
were:  ist.  Elisa  C,  married  J.  J.  Whoon,  July  9,  1867; 
had  children.  2nd.  John,  of  Florida,  married  and  had  a 
large  family.  3rd.  Mary  Josephine,  born  April  14,  1841 ; 
married  August  2,  1865,  Clifford  Stanley  Sims,  born  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1839,  son  of  John  and  Emeline  M.  (Clarke)  Sims, 
who  resided  at  Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey.  Children :  Charles 
A.,  Clifford,  Launcelot,  Ralph  A.,  John  Clarke,  Thomson 
N.,  James  Ross,  and  Ross  Brainerd. 

(^5)  Caroline  C,  married  May  17,  1814,  Col.  Joseph 
Carson,  who  commanded  a  regiment  of  Mississippi  Volun- 
teers in  the  Creek  War;  he  was  born  October  7,  1785;  died 
May  2y,  181 7.  Their  son,  James  Green,  born  March  8, 
1815;  died  August  11,  1863;  married  July  28,  1835,  Cath- 
erine Waller,  born  January  20,  1815;  died  November  2, 
1888,  daughter  of  William  S,  Waller,  of  Frankfort,  later  of 
Lexington,  Kentucky,  where  he  was  for  forty  years  the 
cashier  of  the  Bank  of  Kentucky.  Children:  Tst,  Joseph 
Carson,  born  October  19,  1843 ;  died  October  20,  1902,  was 
a  Confederate  soldier,  has  at  the  present  six  children  living. 
2nd.  William.  Waller,  bom  June  2,  1845;  was  a  Confederate 
soldier;  he  is  at  present  Professor  Emeritus  of  Ci/il  En- 
gineering in  the  University  of  Tennessee,  at  Knoxville, 
having  been  active  professor  of  that  department  from  1885 
to  1916,  when  he  resigned;  he  has  been  engaged  as  Con- 
struction Engineer  in  important  railroad  building,  and  is 
now  a  director  on  the  Board  of  Naval  Investigation,  of 
which  Edison  is  President.    3rd.  James  Green,  born  March 


The  Ewixg  Gk.nealogy  with  Cognate  BiJANCiiirs  139 

25,  1847;  died  unmarried,  May  10,  1887;  was  a  Confeder- 
ate soldier.  4th.  Edward  Lees,  born  August  12,  184S;  died 
July  8,  1905;  no  issue.  5th.  Katherinc,  horn  February  20, 
1853,  Carroll  Parish,  Louisiana;  married  November  21, 
1876,  Clifton  R.  Breckenridge,  of  Arkansas,  born  Novem- 
ber 22,  1846,  son  of  the  late  General  John  C.  Breckenridge, 
of  Kentucky.  He  (Clifton  R.)  was  a  member  of  48th  to 
51st  United  States  Congresses  (1883-1891),  and  later  was 
United  States  Minister  to  Russia  (1894- 1897)  under  ap- 
pointment of  President  Grover  Cleveland.'  Children:  (a) 
James  Carson,  now  assistant  Naval  attache  at  Petrograd, 
is  senior  Captain  in  the  United  States  Marine  Corps,  and 
has  passed  his  examination  for  Major,  which  puts  him  in 
line  for  the  first  promotion  to  that  grade,  (b)  Mary  Car- 
son, wife  of  Richard  Ryan  Thompson,  President  of  Cres- 
cent College  and  Conservatory,  Eureka  Springs,  Arkansas; 
their  child,  two  years  old,  being  named  Breckenridge.  (c) 
Susanna  Preston  Lees  (called  Lees)  ;  in  1916  a  post  gra- 
duate student  in  French  at  Columbia,  New  York,  (d) 
Clifton  R.,  junior,  was  born  at  Petrograd,  then  St.  Peters- 
burg, while  his  father  was  Minister  at  the  .Russian  Court, 
and  is  now  a  student  at  Cornell  University,  having  recent- 
ly taken  several  medals  and  other  distinctions  in  the  military 
line. 

(6)  Matilda  .Susan,  married  James  Railey,  of  Versailles, 
Kentucky,  son  of  Charles  Railey  and  his  wife  Mary  I\lay(), 
daughter  of  Col.  William  Mayo,  of  Virginia.  They  had, 
probably  besides  other  children,  a  son,  H.  Otey  Railey,  who 
married  his  cousin,  Irene  Green  (q.  v.),  and  a  daughter, 
Mary  Eliza,  born  January  5,  1824,  married  January  24, 
1844,  Rev.  Frederick  W.  Boyd,  late  Rector  of  the  Episco- 
pal Church,  at  Waukesha,  Wisconsin.  Children:  ist. 
James  Railey,  bom  August  13,  1846.  2nd.  Walter  Stuart, 
born  November  9,  1859.  3rd.  Lloyd  T.,  bom  December  19, 
1 86 1,  married  Susan  Patterson,  and  had  a  daughter  named 
for  her  mother.  4th.  Charles  Mayo,  horn  December  15, 
1866. 

6.  Martha  Wills,  bom  December  25,  1763;  married  Col. 
Cato  West,  a  man  of  great  ability  and  extended  influence 
in  Mississippi.  Children :  ( i )  Martha,  married  John 
Davidson.  (2)  William,  married  Sarah  Kirkland.  (3) 
Mary,  married  Edward  Turner.  (4)  Thomas,  died  un- 
married.    (5)   Eliza,  married  McCoy.     (6)  John,  died  un- 

nVho's  Who   in  America,   1916-17. 


140  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

married.  (7)  Anna,  married  Joseph  Winn,  of  Franklin 
County,  Mississippi.  (8)  Susan,  married  her  cousin, 
Thomas  West.  (9)  Charles,  married  Charlotte  Neilly,  of 
Fayette,  Mississippi.  (10)  Claiborne,  died  unmarried. 
(11)   Benjamin,  married  Pauline  Wing. 

7.  Ann  Harwood,  born  December  17,  1765;  died  young; 
no  issue. 

8.  Henry  M.,  born  November  8,  1767;  married  Jane 
Davidson,  of  Nashville,  Tennessee;  their  son,  Thomas  M,, 
of  Vicksburg,  Mississippi,  married  Mary  Templeton.  Issue : 
(i)  Mary  J.,  married  Dr.  William  T.  Stewart.  (2)  Lucy, 
married  Mr.  McCutcheon,  of  Vicksburg.  (3)  Martha, 
married  (first)  Mr.  Caviness,  and  (second)  John  Calder- 
wood.  (4)  John,  married  Lizzie  Harris.  He  was  a  con- 
federate soldier.  (5)  Malvina.  married  Captain  John  W. 
Cobb.  (6)  Rosanna,  died  unmarried.  (7)  Joseph,  a  Con- 
federate soldier,  died  unmarried.  (8)  William,  married 
Mary  Paxton,  of  Vicksburg. 

9.  Elias,  born  October  9,   1769;  no  issue. 

10.  Filmer  W.,  born  April  6,  1772;  no  issue. 

11.  Abraham,  born  September  28,  1774,  married  Eliza 
Caffrey.  Children:  (i)  Filmer,  born  January  10,  1802. 
(2)  Thomas  J.,  born  June  6,  1804.  (3)  Mary  Caffrey, 
born  March  17,  1806.  (4)  Rachel  Jackson,  born  May 
28,  1808.  (5)  John  Donaldson,  born 'June  8,  1810.  (6) 
Andrew  Jackson,  born  January  31,  1812,  (7)  Robert 
Hays,  bom  February  21,  1814.  (8)  Martha,  bom  Septem- 
ber 2,  181 7.  (9)  Abram  Ashbury,  born  April  3,  1819. 
(10)   Eliza,  born  August  i,   1821. 

Abram  Ashbury,  a  cultured  gentleman  and  profound 
scholar,  only  recently  died  at  Greenville.  Mississippi,  run- 
ning a  century  close;  he  was  the  father  of  Mrs.  Lucy 
Yerger,  wife  of  the  late  Col.  W^illiam  Yerger  of  that  city, 
and  grandfather  of  the  wife  of  Ben  Humphreys,  now  one 
of  the  leading  Congressmen  from  Mississippi,  being  a  mem- 
ber of  the  United  States  House  of  Representatives. 

12.  EVERARD    (q.   v.). 

Thomas  Marston  Green,  senior,  husband  of  Martha  Wills, 
is  a  conspicuous  figure  in  the  Green  line;  contemporaneous 
history  described  him  as  a  "bold,  persistent  and  determined 
man,"  and  we  may  safely  assert  that  he  was  brave  in  war, 
daring  in  exploitation,  and  resourceful  in  peace.  He  was  a 
soldier  of  the  War  of  the  Revolution  in  the  cause  of  In- 
dependence, and  his  rank  therein  has  been  established  as 
that  of  Colonel.'' _^___ 

'Accepted  Applications,   N.   S.    D.   A.   R..    Nat.    Nos.   146,  66217,   125,569  and 

126,10'?. 


8th.  Robert  Payne,  born  June  17th,  1862  married  Lil- 
lian Fowler  November  7th,  1894  who  died  April  30th,  1895; 
he  afterwards  married  on  September  19th,  1897  Clara 
Fowler,  younger  sister  of  first  wife,  born  January  14th, 
1878,  issue,  Lillian,  born  September  22nd,  1900. 

9th.  Cora  Louisa,  born  July  12th.  1864  died  6th  day  of 
May,  1903,  married  James  B.  Lee,  of  Merigold,  Mississ- 
ippi, February  15th,  1888;  issue  James  Holmes,  Sidney 
Baker,  Thomas  J.,  Joseph  B.,  Cora  Baker  and  Everard 
Baker.  All  the  Ijoys  of  this  family  with  the  exception  of 
Sidney,  were  in  military  and  naval  service  in  the  late  war 
with  Germany;  Joseph  and  Thomas  J.  were  in  active  serv- 
ice in  France,   and  Everard  served  two  years  in  the  Navy. 

10th.     Alice  May,   born  July  7th,  1866.  unmarried. 

Thomas  Francis  Baker,  together  with  his  younger  broth- 
er, Everard  Green  Baker,  after  the  death  of  their  mother, 
lived  with  their  uncle  and  guardian,  Abner  Everard  Green 
[q.  v.]  at  Gayoso.  After  his  marriage,  Thomas  Francis 
moved  to  the  Baker  home,  adjoining  the  Gayoso  planta- 
tion, where  he  resided  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  His 
son,  Robert  Payne,  now  owns,  and  resides  ar,  the  old  Bak- 
er homestead. 


ADDENDUM. 

TO  BE  INSERTED  AT  PAGE  I4J  OF 

''THE  EWING  GENEALOGY." 

(By  Permission  of  the  Authors.) 

Thomas  Francis  BaKei  was  the  oldest  son  of  Thomas 
Baker  and  Eliza  McKinney  Green,  [q  v.].  He  was  born 
September  21st.  1824  and  died  March  18th.  1892;  married 
Martha  Young  Payne  May  31st.  1849;  born  October  4th, 
1830,  died  April  29th,  1868:  she  was  the  daughter  of  James 
Payne  and  Jane  Caroline  Wood,  and  a  grandaughter  of 
Col.  James  G.  Wood.  Her  father  was  a  native  of  Virginia 
and  her  grandfather  of  Maryland;  both  settled  at  Church 
Hill,  Jefferson  County,  in  the  territorial  days  of  Mississ- 
ippi and  reared  large  families: 

The  children  of  Thomas  Francis  Baker  and  Martha 
Young  Pavne  were: 

1st.  Thomas  Wilkins  born  July  30th,  1850.  died  Jan- 
uary 17th,  1882,  married  Lula  C  Blake  March  31st,  1880, 
issue  Martha  Thomas,*  born  March  29th,  1881,  married 
Thomas  Van  Lear  who  died  in  1920,  issue  Thomas  Van 
Lear.  Jr. 

2nd.  Francis  Johnson  born  F^'ebruary  21st,  1852,  mar- 
ried;   no  living  issue. 

3rd.     Jane  Caroline  born  August  1st,  1853,  unmarried. 

4th.  Joseph  Holmes  Baker  born  October  4th.  1855. 
married  first,  Virginia  Brown  October  3rd,  1882.  born 
xMarch  2nd.  1860,  died.  July  29th,  1911.  Issue:  Alice  Vir- 
ginia, born  August  1st,  1883,  married  Junius  Davidson 
May  1906;  Martha  Pauline,  born  September  21st,  1884, 
married  William  Richards  Early,  February  22nd.  1903; 
Annie  Louise,  born  October  6th,  1888,  married  Earle  P. 
Hogin  April  15th,  1913.  Joseph  Holmes  Baker's  second 
marriage  was  on  January  31st,  1913  to  Myra  Lee  Green- 
wade,  born  April  15th,  1865,  a  sister  of  first  wife  and  wid- 
ow of  P.  M.  Greenwade.  deceased,  of  Whitnev.  Texas. 

5th.  Martha  Eliza,  born  May  20th.  1857,  unmar- 
ried. 

6th.  Edgar  Wood,  born  November  19th,  1858.  died 
July  30th,  1902,  married  Cora  Lee  Vaughn  March  3rd, 
1885,  issue  Alma  Lee,  married  F.arnest  Thousseu;  Edgar 
Vaughn   married  Margarete  Scott,  and  Charles. 

7th.  Everard  Green,  born  November  16lh,  1860,  died 
August  18th,  1885,  unmarried. 


CHAPTER  XX. 

THK    GREEN    TREE     CONTINUED:     EVERARD    GREEN,    HIS 
CAREER,    MARRIAGE  AND  DESCENDANTS. 

EVERARD   GREEN 

youngest  son  of  Thomas  Marston  and  Martha  (Wills) 
Green  (q.  v.),  was  born  April  15,  1776,  died  at  "Gayosa" 
March  10,  1813;  he  married,  in  the  year  1798,  Elizabeth 
Kirkland,  of  Virginia,  born  1778,  died  at  "Gayosa,"  Nov- 
ember 6,  1833/    Issue: 

I.  Eliza  McKinney,  born  November  15,  1802;  died 
January  27,  1837;  married  January  i,  1818,  Thomas  Baker, 
a  widower,  bom  February  15,  1791,  died  March  15,  1832. 
Issue  of  this  marriage : 

(i)  Eliza  Ann,  born  January  22,  1821  ;  died  August  23, 
1821. 

(2)  Everard  Green,  born  November  6,  1826;  married 
(first)  September  6,  1849,  Laura  Lavinia  Alexander,  born 
March  19,  1834,  died  July  2,  i860.  Issue:  ist.  Walter 
Kirkland,  born  June  28,  1850;  2nd.  Everard  Green,  born 
March  4,  1853;  3rd.  Mary  Edith,  born  October  15,  1854; 
4th.  Laura  Lavinia,  born  June  7,  1856;  5th.  Eliza,  born 
March  12,  1858;  6th.  Thomas  Francis,  born  June  4,  1859. 

Everard  Green  Baker,  married  (second)  July  21,  1862, 
Sallie  Fleming,  born  July,  1842.  Issue  of  this  marriage: 
Tst.  Fred  Nash,  born  .September  13,  1863.  2nd.  Alice 
Jeanetie,  born  February  21,  1867;  3rd.  Robert  L.  and 
Martha  Gordon  (twins),  born  October  28,  1868;  former 
married  January  2y,  1897,  his  cousin,  Mary  Louise  Whit- 
tington,  born  October  19,  1870,  died  August  18,  1891.  Chil- 
dren:  Joseph  Kittredge,  born  October  15,  1897;  Ralph 
Douglas,  born  November  10,  1898,  and  Mary  Louise,  born 
August  9,  1901.  4th.  John  F.,  born  October  2,  1870;  5th. 
Lizzie  Antonia,  born  October  5,  1872;  6th.  Sallie  Bell,  born 
June  15,  1874;  7th.  Florence,  born  March  15,  1876;  8th. 
William  C.,  born  June  6,  1878;  9th.  A^.  Quintard,  born 
July  8,  1879;  loth.  Nellie,  born  April  22,  1881 ;  nth. 
Edzvard  Oates,  born  May  24,  1885. 

Robert  L.  Baker,  who  married  Mary  Louise  Whitting- 
ton,  is  novv'  among  the  most  prominent  of  the  Louisiana 
sugar  planters;  he  is  the  owner  of  "Madcwood,"  one  of  the 
ver>^  finest  plantations  of  Assumpton  Parish,  and  it  is  safe 

'Tombstone  at  "Gayosa." 

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142  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognaie  Bbanches 

to  say  that  no  citizen  of  that  section  is  more  highly  esteemed 
than  he,  not  only  for  his  skill  and  success  as  a  planter,  but 
for  his  sterling  character. 

2.  Louisa  Sparks,  born  November  12,  1807;  married 
(first)  Anthony  Ferryman.     Issue: 

(i)  Elizabeth,  married  Dr.  Irvin  Quinn,  and  had  sev- 
eral children,  among  them  a  daughter,  who  married  Gordon, 
whose  son  married  Carrie  Kittredge  Barton. 

(2)  David,  died  without  issue. 

(3)  Laura,  married  Dr.  Stead,  no  issue. 

(4)  Martha,  married  Major  Livingston  Mimms,  a  very 
brilliant  man ;  no  issue. 

After  the  death  of  Anthony  Ferryman,  the  widow,  Louisa 
Sparks,  married  2nd.,  Alexander  Rogers  Green,*  January 
14,  1836,  at  Holmesville,  Mississippi.  Issue  of  this 
marriage : 

(i)  Margaret  (Mag)  Louisa,  born  July  2^,  1838,  died 
without  having  married. 

(2)  Caroline  Frances,  born  near  Terry,  at  Fine  Spriiigs, 
Mississippi,  July  13,  1840;  died  July  13,  1875;  married  June 
2^,  i860,  at  Fine  Springs,  Hinds  County,  Misssisippi,  to 
Samuel  Livingston.  Issue:  ist.  Guy,  born  September  11, 
1861,  died  June  29,  1863;  2nd.  Clifton,  born  April  3,  1865, 
died  January  19,  191 5,  married  at  Bentonia,  Yazoo  County, 
Mississippi,  January  28,  1897,  Nettie  Taylor;  children: 
Samuel  Hilary,  born  January  9,  1898,  and  Clifton,  born 
August  25,  1899.  3rd.  Bertha,  a  lady  of  rare  gifts  and 
chamiing  personality,  born  June  14,  1868;  she  is  unmar- 
ried, now  residing  in  Jackson,  Mississippi.  4th.  Frank, 
born  August  26,  1871,  died  January  i,  1898.  5th.  Wills, 
born  May  20,  1875,  died  July  13,  1875. 

(3)  Cora  Octavia,  born  September  11,  1842;  married 
William  Wallace  Montgomery,  both  dead.  Issue:  ist. 
Louise,  born  February  15,  1865,  married  Joseph  Lipscomb, 
Jr. ;  they  have  five  children,  two  married,  but  names  not 
furnished.  2nd.  Wallace,  born  July  26,  1867,  and  has  died. 
3rd.  William  Alexander,  born  January  25,  1870;  married 
Lillian  Fastel  Smith,  December  8,  1897;  children:  Lillian, 
born  April  14,  1899,  and  Anna  Davis,  born  June  18,  1901. 
4th.  Robert  Estelle,  born  November  20,  1870,  now  living 
in  Chickasha,  Oklahoma ;  he  is  married  and  has  two 
children. 

*He  was  from  Maine,  and  was  a  scholarly  and  cultured  gentleman,  but 
as  far  as  known   not  related  to  the   Greens  of  his  wife's  family. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  143 

(4)  Antonio  Mayson,  born  September  11,  1845;  <iied 
unmarried. 

(5)  Lucy  Estelle,  born  April  18,  1S48;  married  William 
M.  Braoey.  Issue:  ist.  Maggie  Louise,  born  November 
26,  1877;  married  May  3,  1898,  Joseph  Wyatt  Grantham. 
Children:  Joseph  Wyatt,  born  February  19,  1899;  William 
Bracey,  born  December  8,  1900;  Lucy  Green,  born  Decem- 
ber 25,  1903,  died  in  1910;  Malcolm  Steven,  born  January 
28,  1909;  Robert  Gordon,  born  July  29,  1912;  Francis  Wil- 
lard,  born  January  17,  1916.  2nd.  Albert  Green,  born 
August  26,  1879,  and  has  died.  3rd.  Fanny  Augusta,  born 
January  22,  1882,  married  September  24,  1903,  at  Terry, 
Mississippi,  William  David  Terr>',  born  November  25,  1882, 
now  residing  in  San  Antonio.  Texas.  Issue,  a  son  Robert, 
born  July  6,    1904. 

4.  Abner  Everard,  who  measured  up  to  the  standard  of 
his  proud  family,  married  Sarah  Jane  Wood,  daughter  of 
Ethan  Allen  and  Nancy  (Collins)  W'ood,  of  Mississippi, 
Ethan  Allen  Wood  was  a  big  man  every  way,  honored  and 
honorable.  Issue  of  the  marriage  of  Abner  Everard  and 
Sarah  (Wood)  Green  were  three  sons  and  three  daughters, 
as  follows : 

(i)  James  Payne,  a  very  cultivated  and  highly  edu- 
cated gentleman,  who  has  long  been  prominent  and  influen- 
tial in  his  section  in  public  affairs ;  he  was  graduated  as  a 
lawyer,  and  taught  school  at  one  time  in  Port  Gibson,  Miss- 
issippi ;  married  Felicia  Anna  W^ailes,  daughter  of  Colonel 
B.  L.  Covington  Wailes,  State  Geologist,  author  of  "Miss- 
issippi Geology,"  a  rare  work  and  still  a  standard.  They 
had  three  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  of  whom  died  be- 
fore maturity  except  the  son,  Abner  Everard,  who  grew  to 
manhood,  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  the  South, 
at  .Sewanee,  Tennessee,  as  a  civil  engineer,  and  later  became 
a  licensed  lawyer  of  both  the  common  and  civil  law.  At 
the  time  of  his  death,  in  his  young  manhood,  he  was  dis- 
trict attorney  of  Tensas  Parish,  Louisiana. 

(2)  Robert  A.,  died  October  15,  1917;  he  married 
Magda  Turpin,  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  who  pre-de- 
ceased  him ;  no  issue. 

(3)  W^illiam  Kirkland,  born  October  29,  1849;  married 
April  29,  1885,  Alice  Smith,  born  March  12,  1866;  he  died 
April  2-^,  1913.  Issue  of  the  marriage,  a  daughter,  Leila 
Lake,  born  May  9,  1886,  who  married  October  9,  1907, 
Grant   Green   Alexander,   of    Greenville,    Mississippi,    born 

10 


144  TuE  EwiNG  Genealogy  mith  Cognate  Branches 

September  12,  1882.    They  have  one  child,  AHce  Lake,  horn 
August  27,  1908. 

(4)  Fannie  Adele,  the  eldest  daughter,  now  living  in 
New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  married  Dr.  Robert  Payne,  who  is 
dead ;  no  issue  living. 

(5)  Irene,  married  H.  Otey  Railey,  a  cousin  on  the 
Green  side,  both  dead ;  they  had  a  promising  son,  Frank, 
who  grew  to  manhood,  and  died  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana. 

(6)  Leila  C,  never  married,  and  is  now  living  at 
"Gayosa,"  the  old  homestead,  with  her  brother,  James 
Payne,  and  his  wife,  Anna  (Wailes)  Green. 

Though  all  are  old,  each  past  "three  score  years  and  ten," 
and  bereft  of  the  dear  ones  gone  before,  they  are  yet  young 
in  thought  and  feeling,  awake  with  alertness  to  events  of 
interest;  and,  sustained  by  the  "blessed  hope  of  immor- 
tality," they  are  patiently  waiting  to  answer  the  final  sum- 
mons when  it  comes,  "like  one  that  wraps  the  drapery  of  his 
couch  about  him  and  lies  down  to  pleasant  dreams." 

Everard  Green,  the  head  of  this  division,  was  a  princely 
man,  and  if  we  were  asked  what  of  his  personal  history, 
what  of  his  life  and  career,  we  would  answer,  that  of  a 
wealthy  Southern  planter  in  the  ante-bellum  days,  super- 
vising imperiously  his  lordly  estate,  and  enjoying  luxuri- 
ous, but  remarkably  cultivated  and  refined,  association  with 
his  equally  high-born  and  grandly  endowed  neighbors  who 
were  possessed  of  similar  estates.  Thus,  in  this  gladsome 
way,  days  would  glide  into  weeks,  and  the  weeks  into 
months  and  years,  passing  as  swiftly  and  sweetly  as  tho 
wafted  along  on  the  zephyr-laden  notes  of  an  Aeolian  harp. 
Yet,  pausing  a  moment,  may  we  indulge  the  reflection  that, 
deeply  impressed  as  we  are  with  the  exaltation  of  service 
dedicated  to  help  of  those  engaged  in  moving  the  great  en- 
gine of  the  world's  progress,  we  have  no  regret  for  the  de- 
parture of  those  halcyon  times,  grand  as  they  were,  when 
contemplated  from  the  dazzling  splendor  of  their  dizzy 
heights.  The  burial  of  them,  tho  in  tears  and  blood,  has 
resulted,  as  we  think,  in  a  resurrection  where  may  be  seen 
glimpses  of  the  radiance  of  a  "New  South"  approaching 
more  nearly  the  equality  of  opportunity  and  the  brotherhood 
of  man. 

For  a  continuation  of  the  Green  line  under  Everard 
Green's  daughter,  Martha  Wills,  who  became  the  wife  of 
Dr.  Ebenezer  Eaton  Kittredge  (q.  v.),  see  the  Kittredge 
tree,  supra. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  145 

ELIZABETH    KIRKLAND 

wife  of  Everard  Green  (q.  v.),  was  a  Virginian  by  birth, 
and  while  the  name,  sometimes  written  Kirtland,  would  in- 
dicate Scotch  origin,  yet  it  is  an  old  English  name,  the 
family  hailing  principally  from  Cumberland.  The  "General 
Armory"  gives  the  family  coat  of  arms  as  granted  in  the 
time  of  William  I. 

The  origin  of  the  family  in  this  country  seems  to  have 
been  the  arrival  on  the  Hopetvell,  in  1635,  of  two  brothers, 
Philip,  born  1614,  and  Nathaniel,  born  1616,  who  were  sons 
of  Philip  Kirkland,  probably  of  Sherington,  Bucks  County, 
England,  whose  wife's  name  is  not  known.  Susanna,  a  sis- 
ter of  these  brothers,  married  John  Westall. 

The  son  Nathaniel,  with  his  brother  Philip,  went  to  Long 
Island,  and  settled  in  Southold,  but  returned  to  Lynn,  of 
which  he  was  selectman  in  1678,  and  where  he  died  in 
1686.  He  married  Parnell  Kirkland,  and  their,  issue  were 
three  sons,  Matthew,  Philip,  and  John,  born  in  Lynn 
August  1659,  died  January  20,  1716,  and  five  daughters, 
Ann,  Hannah,  Elizabeth,  born  in  Lynn,  March  20,  1664, 
married  William  Pratt,  Mary,  and  Martha,  born  May  15, 
1667,  married  (first)  Joseph  Blaque,  and  (second)  Captain 
William  Southworth,  of  Compton,  Long  Island. 

The  son  John,  married  Lydia,  daughter  of  Lieutenant 
William  Pratt,  and  lived  in  Saybrook;  he  was  adopted  by 
his  aunt  and  uncle,  Susanna  (Kirkland)  and  John  Westall, 
and  succeeded  to  their  estate.  He  became  quite  prominent 
in  local  affairs,  having  been  appointed  lieutenant  of  the  fort 
at  Saybrook  in  1702  and  again  in  1708.' 

The  issue  of  Lieutenant  John  and  Lydia  (Pratt)  Kirk- 
land were : 

(i)  John,  born  July  11,  1681,  married  Temperance, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  and  Hester  (Hosmer)  Bucking- 
ham, of  Saybrook,  March  3,  1 702-3. 

(2)  Priscilla,  married  Thomas  Jones. 

(3)  Lydia,  married  (first)  Griffin,  and  (second) 
Conklin. 

(4)  Elizabeth,  married  John  Shipman. 

(5)  Nathaniel,  married  (first)  Sara  Chapman,  and 
(second)  Phoebe  De  Wolf. 

(6)  Philip. 

(7)  Samuel,  married  Martha  Whittlesey. 

(8)  Daniel   (Rev.),  born  June   17,   1701,  Alma  Mater 

'Colonial   Records  of  Conn.,  vols.   IV  and  V. 


146  The  Ewing  GENEALociv  with  Cognate  Branches 

Yale,  was  first  pastor  of  Newent  Church,  Norwich,  Con- 
necticut, 1720,'  married  July  15,  1723,  Mary  Perkins,  by 
whom  he  had  five  sons  and  seven  daughters,  among  them 
Rev.  Samuel  Kirkland,  missionary  to  the  Oneida  Communi- 
ty, and  father  of  President  John  Thornton  Kirkland  (Kirt- 
land)  of  Harvard. 

(9)     Parnell,  married  John  Tully. 

Temperance,  daughter  of  John  and  Temperance  (Buck- 
ingham) Kirkland,  married  Lieutenant  Andrew  South- 
worth,  and  Hannah,  daughter  of  Elizabeth  (Kirkland)  and 
John  Shipman,  married  Samuel  Southworth ;  and  Eliza 
Lucy,  daughter  of  one  of  these  unions,  married  William 
Goodwin  Lewis,  who  had  by  her  a  son,  Henry  Martyn 
Lewis. 

Elizabeth  (Kirkland)  Green  is  doubtless  a  descendant, 
through  some  ancestor  who  removed  to  Virginia,  of  the 
Kirkland  family  above  mentioned,  but  as  a  result  of  the 
devastation  in  the  South  of  the  Civil  War,  the  connecting 
links  have  been  lost. 

This  we  know,  however,  that  she  was  worthy  of  the  best 
in  ancestr}' ;  she  was  resolute  of  purpose,  active  in  endeavor, 
and  courageous  in  her  convictions — no  namby-pamby 
woman  she,  but  a  patriotic  daughter  and  wife,  ready  ever 
to  dare  for  the  right ;  like  Portia,  "so  fathered  and  so 
husbanded." 

James  Hampton  Kirkland,  of  Nashville,  Tennessee,  the 
very  distinguished  scholar,  linguist  and  author,  now  Chan- 
cellor of  Vanderbilt  University,  is  probably  of  the  same 
lineage  as  Elizabeth  (Kirkland)  Green,  but  unfortunately 
his  family  records  have  not  been  preserved,  so  that  verifi- 
cation is  impossible.' 

Among  other  descendants  of  the  illustrious  family  may 
be  reckoned  the  family  of  the  name  in  Houston,  Texas, 
formerly  of  Mississippi,  which  is  held  in  high  estimation 
and  includes  Rosa  B'.lizabeth  (Kirkland)  Noyes,  widow  of 
L.  T.  Noyes,  a  high  Mason  and  successful  business  man ; 
Louise  (Kirkland)  Haralson,  widow  of  E.  M.  Haralson, 
who  was  a  lawyer;  Ida  (Kirkland)  Mullen,  wife  of  Dr. 
Joseph  Mullen,  a  leading  specialist  of  the  eye,  nose  and 
throat ;  Edwin  Wells  Kirkland,  a  successful  business  man, 
and  the  descendants  of  William  Hinds  (named  for  Major 
Hinds)  Kirkland,  deceased. 

^Saybrook   Records,  Vol.   II,  p.  4. 
nVho's  Who  in  America,  1916-17. 


CHAPTER  XXI. 

THE   GREEN    TREE   CONTINUED:     THE   FAMILY   ACHIEVEMENTS 
AND  DISTINCTION. 

We  observe,  in  closing  our  narrative  of  the  Greens,  with 
the  cognate  branch  of  Kirklands,  that  confusion  has  arisen 
in  some  of  the  histories  as  to  the  different  Thomas's  of  the 
Green  Hne,  and  as  to  the  habitat  of  Colonel  Thomas  M. 
Green  during  certain  periods ;'  but  the  confusion  it  is  be- 
lieved can  be  easily  cleared  away.  Weaving  the  threads  of 
history  into  the  woof  of  family  tradition,  with  harmoniz- 
ing effect,  we  have  no  difficulty  in  concluding  that  Colonel 
Thomas  M.  Green,  he  of  Revolutionary  fame,  lived  in 
James  City  County,  Virginia,  where  he  was  born  and  mar- 
ried, until  in  or  about  1766,  when  he  removed  to  North 
Carolina,  and  Georgia,  remaining  there  until  hostilities 
broke  out  between  Great  Britain  and  the  Colonies ;  that  he 
then  went  back  to  Virginia  for  service  in  the  war,  and 
there  enlisted  and  served  in  the  war  as  soldier,  with  the 
rank  of  colonel,  and  later  returned,  after  the  Revolutionary 
war  was  over,  to  the  Georgia  section,  and  thereafter  for  a 
time,  before  permanently  becoming  established,  may  have 
lived  or  had  his  headquarters  in  Natchez,  Mississippi;  that 
about  1783,  he  became  involved  in  the  altercation  to  be  men- 
tioned with  the  .Spanish  authorities,  was  arrested  and  taken 
to  New  Orleans,  J-ouisiana,  but  was  released,  and  that  in 
or  before  1785,  he  became  finally  settled  on  his  vast  estate, 
the  homestead  of  which  was  known  as  "Gayosa,"  in  what 
is  now  Jefferson  County,  Mississippi.  These  conclusions 
are  supported  by  cogent  circumstances.  The  result  of  a 
close  investigation  which  we  procured  to  be  made  in  the 
Congressional  Library,  Washington,  District  of  Columbia, 
is  that  the  arrest  and  incarceration  in  New  Orleans  must 
have  taken  place  between  1783  and  1785.  The  grant  for 
the  estate,  including  "Gayosa,"  is  understood  to  have  been 
in  1785,  at  any  rate  preceding  a  will  made  that  year,  now 
held  as  an  heirloom,  whereby  he  devised  "Gayosa,"  to  his 
youngest  son  Everard,  and  made  therein  no  mention  of 
his  wife,  Martha  Wills,  which  indicates  that  she  had  already 
died,  and  that  hence  the  perilous  journey  to  New  Orleans 
on  the  occasion  of  his  arrest,  which  cost  her  life,  had  pre- 
viously occurred.  "Gayosa"  was  named  for  the  Spanish 
Governor    before    whom    he    was    taken    when    arrested. 

'The   Cabells   and   Their    Kin,   p.   306. 
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148  Tjie  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

Couple  these  circumstances  with  the  certain  evidence  that 
he,  Colonel  Green,  did  remove  from  Virginia  before  the 
War  of  the  Revolution,  which  as  is  known  was  being  waged 
between  1776  and  1781,  and  that  he  was  a  soldier,  holding 
the  rank  of  Colonel,  in  that  war,  and  the  probable  evidence, 
that  his  soldier  service  was  under  enlistment  in  Virginia, 
we  are  drawn  almost  irresistibly  to  the  deductions 
announced. 

Since  writing  the  above,  we  have  been  favored  with  an 
apparently  very  ancient  sketch  of  the  Green  genealogy, 
dated  August  28,  1867,  by  W.  Holmes,  a  descendant  of 
J,  Remsen  Holmes,  who  married  Augusta,  daughter  of 
Thomas  M.  Green,  the  Congressman  (vide,  supra).  It 
tends  to  confirm  the  views  we  have  expressed  concerning 
the  abodes  of  Colonel  Thomas  Green,  the  officer  in  the 
Continental  Army,  before  and  after  the  Revolution;  for  it 
is  there  stated  that  Colonel  Green's  children  whose  nativity 
was  after  1765  and  before  1774,  namely,  Henry  Marston, 
Elias  and  Filmer  Wills  were  born  in  North  Carolina,  and 
that  the  previous  births  of  his  children  were  in  James  City 
County,  Virginia,  and  the  subsequent  ones,  that  is,  of  Abra- 
ham, September  28,  1774,  and  of  Everard,  April  15,  1776, 
were  in  Georgia  (Sketch,  p.  2). 

In  Force's  "American  Archives,"  5th  Series,  page  595, 
proceedings  of  July,  1776,  referring  as  we  understand  to 
Thomas  Marston  Green,  husband  of  Martha  Wills,  it  is 
said: 

"Colonel  Green,  representing  that  only  fifty  (50)  of  his 
Flying  Camp  Company  are  now  in  this  town,  armed,  ac- 
coutred and  ready  to  march,  and  that  a  number  of  the 
drafts  of  some  of  the  companies  of  his  Battalion  have  not 
yet  joined  them,  requests  the  sentiments  of  this  Committee 
whether  those  who  are  (ready)  shall  march  for  the  camp 
under  his  command,  and  what  method  shall  be  taken  to 
oblige  the  other  drafts  to  follow." 

The  social  eminence  and  political  prominence  and  in- 
fluence of  the  Green  family  are  well  attested  by  the  his- 
torical excerpts  to  follow. 

In  Lowry  and  McCardle's  "Histoiy  of  Mississippi," 
Chapter  VI,  page  155,  it  is  said: 

"The  Committee  elected  was  Colonel  Thomas  M.  Green* 
Daniel    Burnett,    Justus    King,    Dr.    John    Shaw,    Anthony 

*He  was  a  son  of  Col.  Thdmas  Marston  Green,  senior,  the  Revolutionary 
ancestor. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  149 

Hoggett,  James  Stewart,  Chester  Ashley,  and  Abner 
Green*  and  these  were  all  representative  men,  gentlemen 
of  character  and  education,  who  founded  large  families, 
made  fortunes,  and  their  descendants  to-day  may  be  found 
in  large  numbers  in  Mississippi  and  Louisiana." 

In  chapter  VIII,  page  i86,  it  is  stated: 

"In  December,  1802,  the  Legislature  was  again  in  ses- 
sion. It  enacted  a  number  of  laws,  established  Jefferson 
College,  and  elected  Colonel  Thomas  Marston  Green  a 
delegate  in  Congress  in  place  of  Honorable  N.  Hunter,  who 
died  at  the  Capital  during  the  session." 

Mrs.  Clifton  R.  (Katherine  Charlotte  Green)  Brecken- 
ridge.  National  Number  146,  and  Mrs.  John  Cox  (Evie 
Green)  Inge,  National  Number  66217,  were  accepted  as 
members  of  the  National  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  by  descent  from  their  great  great 
grandfather,  Thomas  Marston  Green  (husband  of  Martha 
\\'ills),  as  a  soldier  with  the  rank  of  colonel  in  the  War 
of  the  Revolution;  and  in  the  former's  application,  in  stat- 
ing his  Revolutionary  services,  the  applicant  quotes  as  fol- 
lows from  J.  F.  H.  Claiborne's  "Mississippi  as  a  Province, 
Territory  and  State,"  Vol.  i,  pp.  96,  228: 

"Thomas  Marston  Green,  an  accomplished  gentleman 
and  most  useful  citizen,  was  the  son  of  Colonel  Thomas 
Green,  the  head  of  a  numerous  family  and  influential  con- 
nection. He  (Colonel  Thomas  Green)  was  a  Virginian 
and  an  officer  of  the  Continental  Army.  Removed  to 
Georgia  and  was  associated  with  General  George  Rodgers 
Clarke  and  General  Elisha  Clarke  of  Georgia,  in  their 
schemes  of  attacks  on  the  Spaniards.  Colonel  Green,  with 
a  large  party  of  friends,  went  to  the  Holston  River,  built 
boats  and  descended  the  Tennessee  to  its  mouth,  expecting 
there  to  find  General  George  Rodgers  Clarke,  and  his  party, 
but  not  finding  them  and  being  unable  to  ascend  the  Ohio 
with  their  boats,  they  continued  on  to  Natchez.  Colonel 
Thomas  Green  (the  father  of  the  delegate)  had  an  inter- 
view with  the  Spanish  Governor,  as  agent  for  the  State  of 
Georgia,  and  claimed  the  entire  district  for  that  State.  He 
was  a  bold,  determined  and  persistent  man.  The  Spanish 
authorities,  finding  that  he  was  likely  to  excite  a  tumult, 
had  him  arrested  and  sent  to  New  Orleans.  His  devoted 
wife  soon  followed  and  from  exposure  and  anxiety  died 
shortly  after  her  arrival.     This  touched  the  heart  of  the 

*He  was  also  a  son  of  Col.  Thomas  Marston  Green,  senior,  tlif,'  Revo- 
lutionary  ancestor. 


150  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cogxate  Branches 

Spanish  Governor  and  Colonel  Green  was  released.  The 
family  settled  on  the  waters  of  Cole's  Creek,  in  Jefferson 
County. 

"Colonel  Cato  West  and  General  Thomas  Hinds  were 
his  sons-in-law,  and  by  intermarriages  it  constituted  one  of 
the  largest  connections  in  the  district.  Colonel  Thomas 
Green  was  a  man  of  indomitable  resolution.  He  made  the 
overland  journey  to  Georgia,  and  was  mainly  instrumental 
in  getting  the  Legislature  to  pass  the  act  asserting  the  juris- 
diction of  Georgia  over  the  Natchez  district,  and  organizing 
it  into  a  county  named  Bourbon,  in  1785. 

"His  son,  Thomas  M.  Green,  was  the  second  delegate  to 
Congress.  His  son,  Abner  Green,  married  a  daughter  of 
Colonel  Hutchins. 

"Thomas  Marston  Green  (the  son  just  mentioned)  was 
a  warm  friend  of  General  Jackson's.  It  was  to  his  house 
General  Jackson  sent  his  future  wife  (Mrs.  Robards) 
while  her  divorce  was  being  obtained,  and  she  remained 
there  fifteen  months,  and  was  married  to  Jackson  in  his 
house." 

In  support  of  the  statement  of  Revolutionary  service 
contained  in  her  application,  Mrs.  Breckenridge  gives  the 
following  references : 

"  'Mississippi  as  a  Province,  Territory  and  State,"  by 
J.  F.  H.  Claiborne,  Vol.  i,  pp.  96,  228;  'Poore's  Political 
Register;'  Sparks'  'Memories  of  Fifty  Years,'  pp.  150., 5; 
Family  Bible,  Letters  and  Papers." 

In  William  H.  Sparks'  "The  Memories  of  Fifty  Years," 
Chapter  XI,  pages  149,  151,  referring  to  General  Andrew 
Jackson  and  his  marriage  to  Mrs.  Rachel  Robards,  a  young 
woman  whose  divorce  was  the  result  of  her  husband's 
jealousy  of  Jackson,  incidentally  pays  a  high  tribute  to  the 
social  standing  and  character  of  the  Greens,  as  follows : 

"It  was  during  the  period  of  his  commercial  enterprise 
in  Mississippi  that  he  formed  the  acquaintance  of  the  Green 
family.  This  family  was  among  the  first  Americans  who 
settled  in  the  State.  Thomas  M.  Green  and  Abner  Green 
were  young  men  at  the  time,  though  both  were  men  of 
family.  *  *  * 

"The  friends  formed  in  this  section  of  country  by  Jack- 
son were  devoted  to  him  through  life,  and  when  he  sent 
(for  it  is  not  true  that  he  brought)  his  future  wife  to  Miss- 
issippi, it  was  to  the  house  of  Thomas   M.   Green,   then 


TiiK  EwiNG  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  151 

residing  near  the  mouth  of  Cole's  Creek,  and  only  a  few 
miles  from  Bruinsburgh.  *  *  * 

"That  there  was  any  thing  disreputable  attached  to  the 
lady's  name  is  most  improbable.  She  was  more  than  fifteen 
months  an  inmate  of  the  house  of  Green,  who  was  a  man 
of  wealth  and  remarkable  for  his  pride  and  fastidiousness 
in  selecting  his  acquaintances.  He  was  the  second  Terri- 
torial Representative  of  Mississippi  in  Congress,  was  at  the 
head  of  society  socially,  and  certainly  would  never  have 
permitted  a  lady  of  equivocal  character  to  the  privilege  of 
a  guest  in  his  house,  or  to  the  association  of  his  young 
daughters.  During  the  time  that  she  was  awaiting  a 
divorce  (which  she  had  applied  for  to  the  Spanish  authori- 
ties), Mrs.  Robards  was  at  times  an  inmate  of  the  house 
of  Abner  Green,  of  Second  Creek,  where  she  was  always 
gladly  received;  and  he  and  his  family  were  more  particu- 
lar, if  possible,  as  to  the  character  and  position  of  those 
they  admitted  to  their  intimacy  than  Thomas  M.  Green." 

Lowry  and  McCardle  (History  of  Mississippi,  Chapter 
VI,  p.  140),  speaking  of  the  marriage  of  Mrs.  Rachel 
Robards  and  Andrew  Jackson,  and  referring  to  the  fact  that 
Colonel  Thomas  Green,  as  a  magistrate  of  Bourbon  County, 
which  then  comprised  the  territory  of  Jefferson  and  other 
counties,  united  them  in  marriage,  similarly  pronounces 
high  eulog>'  upon  the  Green  family,  saying : 

"Mrs.  Robards  divided  her  time  between  the  families  of 
the  brothers,  Thomas  M.  and  Abner  Green,  both  of  whom 
were  leaders  in  public  affairs  and  in  social  life.  The  first 
sat  in  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  as  the  second 
delegate  from  the  Mississippi  Territory.  *  *  *  Both  were 
held  in  the  highest  esteem  as  men  of  courage  and  unsullied 
honor.  Thomas  M.  Green  resided  near  the  bank  of  Cole's 
Creek,  in  what  is  now  known  as  Jefferson  County.  The 
next  year,  1791,  Andrew  Jackson  returned  to  Natchez  and 
during  the  summer  of  that  year,  he  and  Mrs.  Rachel 
Robards  were  married  at  the  residence  of  Thomas  Marston 
Green  in  Jefferson  County.  *  *  * 

"Colonel  Thomas  Green,  the  father  of  Thomas  M.  and 
Abner  Green,  had  been  for  years  the  agent  of  the  State 
of  Georgia,  and  upon  the  establishment  of  the  county  of 
Bourbon  in  the  Mississippi  Territory,  was  appointed  a 
magistrate  of  the  county." 

In  "The  Cabells  and  Their  Kin,"  page  306,  it  is  stated : 


152  The  Ewing  Genealogy  .vnii  Cognate  Ekanches 

"Colonel  Thomas  Marstoii  Green,  a  colonel  in  Conti- 
nental Army.    After  Revolution  removed*  to  Georgia.  ***" 

A  family  tradition  has  been,  and  it  has  found  its  way 
into  a  history,'  that  Martha  (W^ills)  Green's  mother  was 
Ann  Howard,  descendant  of  the  noted  Howard  family  of 
England,  of  which  Catherine,  daughter  of  Lord  Edmund 
Howard,  and  niece  of  Thomas  Howard,  Earl  of  Surrey 
and  third  Duke  of  Norfolk,  was  fifth  wife  of  Henry  VHI 
of  England;  but  unless  the  name  was  in  America  changed 
to  Harwood,  the  claim  is  illusory,  at  least  a  mistake. 

It  is  interesting  to  note,  as  suggesting  the  recognition  by 
the  people  of  the  conspicuous  services  of  the  Greens  in  the 
public  affairs  of  Mississippi,  that  when  the  commissioners 
mentioned  as  appointed  by  the  Legislature,  composed  of 
Major  Thomas  Hinds,  Lieutenant  Governor  James  Patton 
and  Dr.  William  Lattimore,  had  chosen  the  Capitol,  naming 
it  Jackson,  they  "selected  a  site  for  the  State  House,  and 
called  the  square  'Capital  Green ;'  they  set  aside  another  for 
a  court  house,  and  this  was  called  'Court  Green;'  a  third 
square  was  reserved  for  a  college,  and  called  'College 
Green.'  " 

The  descendants  of  the  Green  line,  if  otherwise  qualified, 
are  eligible  to  the  patriotic  societies  predicated  upon  official 
Colonial  service,  such  as  the  Virginia  Society  of  Colonial 
Dames  of  America,  under  ancestors,  as  follows : 

I.  MAJOR  HENRY  FiLMER,  a  British  officer,  born  in  Eng- 
land, who  resided  in  the  Colony  of  Virginia  from  before 
1653  to  after  1673,  dying  subsequent  to  1673.  He  and  his 
wife  Elizabeth,  were  the  parents  of  Martha  (Filmer) 
Green,  wife  of  Thomas  Green  H  (q.  v.),  and  he  was  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Tames  City 
County,  for  1642-1643.' 

Under  him,  Katherine  (Carson)  Breckenridge  (q.  v.), 
a  member  of  the  Virginia  Society  of  Colonial  Dames  of 
America,  thus  presents  in  her  application  her  claim  for 
membership : 

"Henry  Filmer,  son  of  Sir  Edward  Filmer,  of  East  Sut- 
ton, Kent,  England,  came  to  Virginia  before  1642;  was  a 
Burgess  for  James  City  County  1642-1643,  and  soon  after 

"This  should  be,  as  the  authors  have  shown,  "returned"  to  Georgia,  un- 
less he  lived  in  North  Carolina  before  the  Revolution  and  in  Georgia  after, 
he  having  previously  "removed"  to  that  section  and  gone  back  to  Virginia, 
his  old  home,  for  enlistment  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  in  which  he  serv- 
ed   as    Colonel    from    at    least    July,    1776,   to   its   close   in    1781    (Vide,   supra). 

'The    Cabells   and    their   kin,   p.    306  et    seq. 

^Stanard's    Colonial    Virginia    Register,   p.   63. 


The  EwixG  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  153 

removed  to  A\'arwick  County,  where  he  was  Hving  as  late 
as  1673.  He  rnarried  EHzabeth  (surname  not  given)  and 
had  a  daughter  Martha,  who  married  Thomas  Green.  They 
had  a  son  Thomas  Green  (1665-1730),  who  married  Eliza- 
beth Marston  (November  25,  1672 — August  11,  1759),  and 
had  a  son  Thomas  Marston  Green  who  was  born  in  James 
City  County,  married  Martha,  daughter  of  Filmer  Wills, 
and  later  removed  to  Mississippi.  Thomas  M.  and  Martha 
Green  had  a  son,  Abner  Green,  who  was  born  January  21, 
1762,  married  November  i,  1784,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Colonel  Anthony  Hutchins,  and  dying  February  21,  1816, 
left  a  daughter  Caroline  C.  Green,  who  married  May  17, 
1814,  Colonel  Joseph  Carson  (October  7,  1785 — May  2y, 
1817)  and  had  a  son  James  Green  Carson  (March  8,  181 5 
— August  II,  1863),  w^ho  married  on  July  28,  1835,  Cath- 
erine, daughter  of  William  P.  Waller,  of  Frankfort  and 
Lexington,  Kentucky.  James  and  Catherine  Carson  had  a 
daughter  Katherine  Breckenridge,  who  married  Clifton 
Rhodes  Breckenridge. 

"References :  Standard's  'Colonial  Virginia  Register,' 
Virginia  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography  XV,  'Clay 
Family'   (Filson  Club),  219-223." 

2.  Major  William  Harwood,  born  and  resided  in  ^\'ar- 
wick  County,  Colony  of  Virginia,  died  June  2,  1737,  was  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Warwick  County, 
1 714,  and  probably  longer,  and  for  many  years  Justice  of 
that  County.'  He  married,  but  owing  to  the  destruction  of 
the  Warwick  County  Records,  it  has  been  impossible  to 
ascertain  the  name  of  the  wife  or  date  of  marriage ;  but 
from  the  union  there  was  born  a  daughter  Ann,  about 
1714-1716,  who  became  the  wife  of  Filmer  Wills,  and  to 
them  was  born  a  daughter  Martha,  in  James  City  County, 
Virginia,  March  31,  1734,  who  married  Colonel  Thomas 
Marston  Green   (q.  v.). 

He,  Major  William  Harwood,  was  the  son  of  Major 
Humphrey  Harwood,  who  was  a  Burgess  for  Warwick 
County,  Virginia,  1685,  and  in  1692-1693;'  he  patented, 
1652,  a  tract  of  2070  acres  of  land  in  Warwick  County, 
granted  in  1637,  to  his  father.  Captain  Thomas  Harwood. 

He,  Captain  Thomas  Harwood,  came  to  Virginia  in  1620, 
and  on  June  28  of  that  year  was  appointed  a  member  of 
the    Council    (the   higher   legislative    body),    and    was    re- 

'Stanard's  Colonial  Virginia   Register,  pp.  100;  Virginia  Gazette. 
=Id.   pp.   85,   89. 


154  The  Ewing  Genealogy  wmi  Cognate  Branches 

appointed  on  July  24,  1621 ;  but  later,  in  1629,  1630,  1633, 
and  1642,  he  was  a  Burgess  for  Mulberry  Island,  and  in 
1644,  1645,  1648,  and  1649,  he  was  a  Burgess  for  W^arwick 
County,  being  Speaker  of  the  House  in  1648-1649.  In 
1652,  he  was  again  appointed  to  the  Council/ 

Colonel  William  Harwood,  Burgess  for  Warwick  Coun- 
ty, 1 742-1 775,  and  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Convention 
of  1776,  was  doubtless  a  son  of  Major  William  Harwood, 
who  died  June  2,  1737;  hence  a  brother  of  Ann  Harwood.' 

It  has  long  been  asserted  in  the  Green  family  that  Ann 
Harwood  mentioned  was  the  daughter  of  Colonel  William 
Harwood,  the  member  of  the  Virginia  Convention  of  1776. 
To  have  been  her  father,  he  must  have  married  her  mother 
when  he  was  just  grown,  and  have  been  about  80  years  old 
at  the  time  he  was  a  member  of  such  Convention.  Still 
these  restrictions  are  not  inconsistent  with  his  being  her 
father,  but  do  tend  strongly  to  make  it  probable  that  the 
text  is  correct  in  ascribing  Ann  Harwood's  paternity  to 
Major  William  Harwood  instead  of  to  his  son.  Colonel 
William  Harwood.  However,  as  she  was  undoubtedly  the 
daughter  of  one  or  the  other,  and  as  each  was  in  his  time 
a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  either  thus  making 
a  descendant  eligible  to  the  Virginia  Colonial  Dames,  dis- 
cussion of  the  question  would  seem  to  be  academic. 


■Stanard's    Colonial    Virginia    Register,  pp.   115  et  seq. 

■Stanard's   Colonial   Virginia   Register,  pp.  29,  51,  54-58,  60,  62,  64,  67. 


CH.    XXII 


PRESLEY  KITTREDGE  EWING 


CHAPTER  XXII. 

PRESLEY     KITTREDGE     EWING,     SON     OF     FAYETTE     CLAY     AND 

ELIZA    JOSEPHINE    (kITTREDGE)    EWING;    HIS    CAREER, 

MARRIAGE  AND  CHILDREN. 

PRESLEY  KITTREDGE  EWING* 

son  of  Dr.  Fayette  Clay  Ewing,  senior,  and  Eliza  Josephine 
Kittredge  (q.  v.)  ;  born  at  "Ariel,"  Lafourche  Parish,  Lou- 
isiana, July  21,  i860;  attended  a  preparatory  school  at 
Pass  Christian,  Mississippi,  between  1870-1873;  shortly 
after  his  father's  death  (1872),  he  temporarily  discontinued 
school,  owing  to  financial  reverses  in  his  family,  and  then, 
thirteen  years  old,  personally  solicited  and  obtained  from 
a  New  Orleans  merchant,  to  whom  he  introduced  himself, 
advances  on  his  own  account  for  a  country  plantation  store, 
from  which  he  made  the  money  to  resume  school ;  he  later 
(1878)  entered  the  University  of  Mississippi,  at  Oxford, 
whence  he  was  graduated  in  1881,  before  he  was  twenty-one 
years  of  age,  in  both  the  academic  and  law  courses,  which 
he  had  paralleled,  taking  in  the  former  the  degree  Ph.B., 
and  in  the  latter  the  degree  LL.B.  (first  honor  and  valedic- 
torian) ;  he  not  only  thus  led  his  class,  but  developed  high 
talents  as  an  orator,  having  taken  the  Phi  Sigma  and  Wil- 
loughby  Read  medals  for  oratory,  and  having  been  chosen 
annual  orator;  his  speech  as  a  Junior,  "The  Wandering 
Jew,"  thrilled  and  captivated  his  audience,  eliciting  an  ova- 
tion at  the  conclusion,  and  was  published  generally  in  the 
Mississippi,  Memphis  and  New  Orleans  papers. 

He  settled  in  Houston,  Texas,  where  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  the  spring  of  1882,  and  has  since  there  resided 
and  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  which  has 
extended  to  the  highest  courts,  Federal  and  State,  including 
important  cases,  personally  argued  by  him,  in  the  United 
States  Supreme  Court. 

His  practice  has  been  at  all  times  general,  varied  as  the 
body  of  the  law,  and  confined  to  no  particular  branch,  but 
perhaps  the  greatest  display  of  his  talents  has  been  in  the 
equity  field  of  jurisprudence  and  in  litigation  over  land  and 
commercial  interests ;  he  is  said  by  his  profession  to  have 

"lulited  by  his  wife. 

(155) 


156  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

pioneered  or  developed  more  or  as  many  great  juridical 
principles  as  any  lawyer  of  the  South.' 

He  was  for  a  number  of  years  in  his  practice  a  partner  of 
Geo.  Goldthwaite  and  Henry  F.  Ring,  and  an  associate  of 
John  Lovejoy,  all  distinguished  lawyers,  under  successive 
finn  names,  Goldthwaite  &  Ewing,  Goldthwaite,  Ewing  & 
Ring,  and  Ewing  &  Ring. 

In  1899,  he  was  elected  and  served  as  President  of  the 
Texas  Bar  Association ;  he  is  also  a  member  of  the  Harris 
County  Bar  Association,  and  of  the  American  Bar 
Association. 

In  April,  1905,  he  was  commissioned  and  served  as  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Texas." 

He  campaigned  with  brilliant  success  in  the  East  for  the 
Democratic  National  Committee  under  invitations,  begin- 
ning in  1908;  was  one  of  the  few  Southern  orators  honored 
by  such  choice  for  the  sections  allotted  to  him.  During 
his  itinerary  of  1908,  he  spoke  at  Syracruse,  New  York, 
with  Vice-Presidential  candidate  John  W.  Kern  (after- 
wards United  States  Senator  from  Indiana)  to  about  ten 
thousand  persons,  completely  winning  his  audience,  includ- 
ing Senator  Kern,  who  afterwards  wrote  of  him : 

'Vide,  Texas  Reports,  Rutherford  v.  State,  15  App..  236,  16  Id.,  649;  Cole 
V.  Bammell,  62  Tex.  108;  Continental  Nat.  Bank  of  N.  Y.  v.  Weems,  69 
Tex.  489;  Overstreet  v.  Root,  84  Tex.  26,  s.  c.  78  Tex.  571;  Smith  v.  Swan, 
2  T.  C.  A.  563,  and  XIV;  Branch  v.  Baker,  70  Tex.  190;  Cantrell  v.  Dyer,  6 
T.  C.  A.  551;  Cargill  v.  Kountze,  86  Tex.  386;  Masterson  v.  Burnett,  two 
cases  37  S.  W.  987,  27  T.  C.  A.  370;  Houston  Cemetery  Co.  v.  Drew,  13  T.  C. 
A.  536;  Inman  &  Co.  v.  St.  Louis  S.  Ry.  Co.,  14  T.  C.  A.  39;  Dunlap  v.  Green, 
23  U.  S.  App.  24,  s.  c.  60  Fed.  Rep.  242;  Herman  v.  Likens,  90  Tex.  448;  Ab- 
lowich  V.  Greenville  Nat.  Bank,  95  Tex.  429,  433-4  (Though  not  the  attorney 
of  record  in  these  two  cases,  Judge  Ewing  in  each  prepared  the  argument 
which  resulted  in  the  decision);  Niday  v.  Cochran,  42  T.  C.  A.  292;  Brown  v. 
Canterbury,  101  Tex.  86;  Herndon  v.  Burnett,  21  T.  C.  A.  25,  confirmed  and 
supplemented  in  his  other  cases  of  Sydnor  v.  Texas  Savings,  etc.,  Assn., 
42  T.  C.  A.,  138,  94  S.  W.  451,  and  Brewer  v.  Cochran.  99  S.  W.  1033,  and 
Frugia  v.  Trueheart,  106  S.  W.  736;  Downey  v.  Hatter,  48  S.  W.  32;  Am. 
Legion  of  Honor  v.  Giesberg,  17  T.  C.  A.  2,  42  S.  W.  785;  Tinsley  v.  Ander- 
son. 171  U.  S.  101,  1.  ed.  91;  House  v.  Am.  Surety  Co..  21  T.  C.  A.  590,  54 
S.  W.  303;  Besson  v.  Richards.  24  T.  C.  A.  64,  58  S.  W.  611;  First  Nat.  Bank 
of  Houston  v.  Ewing  &•  Ring.  U.  S.  App.,  103  Fed.  168,  writ  of  certiorari  de- 
nied. 179  U.  S.  686;  Naquin  v.  Tex.  Savings,  etc..  Assn.,  67  S.  W.  85,  908, 
s.  c.  95  Tex.  313,  58  L.  R.  A.  711;  Tinsley  v.  Magnolia  Park.  59  S  W.  629; 
Nelson  v.  Bridge,  98  Tex.  523;  Calder  v.  Davidson,  59  S.  W.  300;  Kimball  v 
Houston  Oil  Co..  100  Tex.  336,  s.  c.  114  S.  W.  662,  and  103  Tex  94- 
Moore  v.  Snowball,  98  Tex.  16,  66  L.  R.  A.  745;  Peden  Iron  &  Steel  Co  v. 
Ocean  Accident  &  Guarantee  Corp.,  Ltd.,  U.  S.  App.,  151  Fed  992-  Murphy 
V.  Galveston,  H.  &  N.  Ry.  Co..  100  Tex.  490.  s.  c.  101  S.  W  439  9 'l  R  A 
(N.  S.)  762;  Beaumont.  S.  L.  &  W.  Ry.  Co.  v.  Olmstead,  120  S.  W.  596;  Hous- 
ton Oil  Co.  v  Mason,  U.  S.  App.,  173  Fed.  1021;  City  of  Beaumont  v.  Master- 
son.  142  S.  W.  984;  Houston  &  Tex.  Cent.  Ry  Co.  v.  Gray,  137  S  W  729. 
t  u-ir^  Tex.  42;  Central  Bank  &  Trust  Co.  v.  Hill.  160  S.  W.  1099;  Solan 
&  Bllhngs  V.  Pasche,  153  S.  W.  672;  Succession  of  Race  (La.  Sup.  Ct.)  80  So 
Kep.  234. 

"Vide.  City  of  Austin  v.  Cahill,  99  Tex.  172.  175  et  seq. 


The  Ewtno  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  157 

"Judge  Presley  K.  Ewing  of  Texas,  is  a  profound  jurist, 
a  Prince  amongst  men,  and  one  of  the  finest  democrats 
between  the  oceans," 

He  is  the  author  of  treatises,  legal  and  literary,  which 
have  evoked  great  praise,  among  them.  The  De-facto  Wife, 
and  The  Rise  and  Progress  of  Education. 

His  renown  as  an  orator  is  established  and  generally  re- 
cognized, and  as  a  specimen  of  his  eloquence  as  also  of  his 
lofty  professional  ideals,  reference  is  made  to  his  speech, 
at  a  Bar  banquet,  as  published  in  part/ 

He  represented  successfully  before  the  Trans-Mississippi 
Commercial  Congress,  at  Wichita,  Kansas,  in  May,  1899, 
the  plan  of  United  States  Government  appropriation  for 
deep  water  gulf  outlet  from  Houston." 

Upon  the  death  of  Mr,  Justice  Lurton  (1914),  and 
shortly  after  of  Mr,  Justice  Lamar  (1916),  and  the  resigna- 
tion of  Mr.  Justice  Hughes  (1916),  of  the  United  States 
Supreme  Court,  he  was  enthusiastically  endorsed  for 
Justice  of  that  Court ;  perhaps  no  one  was  ever  more 
strongly  or  widely  endorsed  for  the  position.  Among  those 
urging  his  appointment  were  Justices  from  four  State 
Supreme  Courts,  including  that  of  his  own  State,  and  the 
Senate  of  Texas  unanimously,  and  it  is  affirmed  by  those 
in  a  position  to  know,  that  he  would  have  received  one  of 
the  two  latter  appointments,  had  the  President  given  either 
to  the  South. 

Not  for  the  purpose  of  eulogy,  but  merely  as  reflecting 
the  estimate  in  which  Judge  Ewing  is  held  as  man,  lawyer 
and  jurist  by  his  compatriots,  we  quote  from  a  few  of  the 
endorsements  of  him  to  the  President  for  the  Supreme 
Court : 

Honorable  Joe  H.  Eagle,  Member  of  Congress  from 
Texas : 

"He  would  make  one  of  the  illustrious  judges  on  that 
exalted  bench,  whose  labors  would  make — not  only  for  the 
establishing  of  justice — but  also  for  the  abiding  glory  of 
the  Supreme  Court  as  the  final  arbiter,  under  tlie  Consti- 
tution, of  questions  affecting  or  determining  the  ultimate 
result  of  our  system  of  free  government. 

"I  hope  this  may  in  no  sense  be  taken  as  fulsome;  and  I 
excuse  my  positive  utterances  concerning  Judge  Ewing  on 
the  ground  that  I  personally  by  long  contact  know  these 

»Shurter's  Am.   Oratory  of  To-day,  p.    189. 
= Who's   Who    in    America.    1916-17. 


158  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

statements  are  true ;  and  I  know  of  no  other  man  of  whom 
I  would  say  these  things." 

Judge  Norman  G.  Kittrell,  jurist  and  journalist : 

"Any  man  who  attains,  as  Mr.  Ewing  has  done,  a  place 
at  the  head  of  the  bar  of  Texas,  must  necessarily  be  a  lawyer 
of  the  highest  order  of  ability;  and  that  he  stands  abreast 
of  the  ablest  lawyers  at  this  or  any  other  bar,  cannot  be 
truthfully  denied." 

Hon.  Joseph  C  Hutcheson,  ex-member  of  Congress  from 
Texas : 

"In  mental  qualifications,  temperament  and  physical  ap- 
pearance, nature  has  marked  him  for  the  position ;  a 
scholarly  lawyer,  a  trained  jurist,  and  a  profound  thinker." 

Chief  Justice  T.  J.  Brown,  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Texas : 

"I  believe  Mr.  Ewing  qualified  to  fill  the  place  well  and 
ably,  and  1  know  that  his  character  personally  and  profes- 
sionally is  such  as  to  commend  him  to  your  kind  considera- 
tion. His  professional  training  has  given  him  a  broad  c-\n- 
prehension  of  legal  questions  which  enables  him  to  reach 
sound   conclusions." 

Justice  F.  A.  Monroe,  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Louisiana : 

"Would  be  an  eminently  proper  person  to  be  selected." 

Justice  W.  R.  Blakemore,  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Oklahoma : 

"Judge  Ewing  is  a  man  of  the  highest  legal  attainments, 
a  profound  scholar,  of  judicial  temperament,  and  a  fine 
sense  of  honor.  No  man  better  equipped  for  the  perform- 
ance of  the  duties  of  this  high  office  can  be  found." 

Justice  Garret  J.  Garretson,  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
New  York: 

"Judge  Ewing  is  of  irreproachable  personal  character 
and  reputation,  of  superior  intellectual  and  educational  en- 
dowment, and  as  a  lawyer  ranks  among  the  best  and  ablest 
in  the  country.  His  high  standing  as  a  man  and  a  jurist 
is  not  confined  to  his  State  and  the  'Southland,'  but  extends 
as  well  throughout  the  "Northland'  and  the  whole  country." 

The  Houston  Post: 

"He  is  a  man  in  the  prime  of  life  and  activity,  he  is 
recognized  wherever  he  is  known  as  one  of  the  South's 
most  eminent  jurists,  and  his  high  personal  character  would 
splendidly  accord  with  the  traditions  of  the  august  tribunal 
which  his  friends  believe  he  would  adorn." 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  wrrn  Cognate  Brancjies  159 

The  Houston  Chronicle : 

"Mr.  Ewing  has  a  wide  acquaintance  over  the  United 
States.  In  several  campaigns  he  has  carried  the  battle  flag 
of  democracy  into  doubtful  states. 

"His  ability  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  position 
is  universally  conceded.  Physically,  morally,  intellectually 
and  in  the  element  of  professional  attainments  he  measures 
up  to  the  dignity  and  to  the  responsible  duties  of  the 
position." 

The  Memphis  News  Scimitar: 

"His  profound  scholarship  and  discursive  reading  have 
enriched  his  mind  with  a  fund  of  encyclopedic  information, 
both  legal  and  historical,  and  he  is  looked  upon  by  the 
legal  profession  of  Texas  as  one  of  the  master  minds  at 
the  bar.  Certainly  if  President  Wilson  should  elevate  him 
to  the  position,  he  will  select  the  peer  of  any  of  the  great 
lawyers  whose  names  are  being  mentioned." 

Judge  Ewing  was  for  many  years  President  of  the  ZZ 
Club,  the  oldest  social  organization  in  Texas,  and  as  such 
a  social  leader,  with  a  personality  and  conversation  easily 
adaptable  and  of  peculiar  attractiveness ;  he  is  a  member  of 
the  important  local  clubs;  he  is  a  Master  Mason,  a  Knight 
Templar,  a  Shriner  and  an  Elk,  and  of  the  college  fra- 
ternities, a  Beta-Bheta-Pi. 

There  has  been  reserved  for  the  last  what  Mr.  Ewing 
declares  the  best  achievement  of  his  life,  his  marriage  on 
February  lo,  1885,  three  years  after  he  began  practice,  to 
Mary  Ellen  Williams,  to  whom  he  had  been  engaged  for 
seven  years — since  their  college  days.  From  this  marrige 
were  born  two  daughters : 

1.  josiE  VESTA,  born  February   11,   1886,  and 

2.  GLADYS,  born  April   17,   1893   (q.  v.). 

The  career  of  these  daughters,  as  students  and  socially, 
has  been  very  similar;  both  went  to  a  private  school  until 
qualified  for  the  sixth  grade,  then  advanced  to  graduation  in 
the  Houston  High  School,  each  there  receiving  her  diploma 
at  16  years  of  age,  with  a  leading  record.  After  obtaining 
the  High  School  diplomas,  both  took  a  finishing  course  at 
the  Finch  School,  in  New  York  City,  where  each  received 
with  high  honor  a  post  graduate  diploma,  besides  a  special 
diploma  in  elocution ;  both  have  been  social  successes, 
popular  and  attractive,  and  much  sought  after  and  honored 
not  only  in  Houston  and  sister  cities  of  the  South,  but  in 
leading  cities  of  the  East  and  West ;  both  have  always 
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160  The  Ewing  Genealogy  wrni  Cognate  Branches 

borne  with  them,  as  though  an  engravement  on  the  family 
escutcheon,  their  lofty  ideals  of  womanhood,  but  never 
obstrusively ;  and  finally,  both  have  a  genius  for  poetry, 
V^esta  winning  when  a  High  School  student  a  prize  offered 
for  the  best  Christmas  carol,  and  Gladys  being  accorded 
high  honor  at  the  Finch  School  for  poems  which  have  been 
by  critics  likened  to  Wordsworth.  Commenting  on  one  of 
her  poems,  "A  Vision,"  inspired  by  seeing  Maude  Adams 
in  Peter  Pan,  the  famous  editor  and  writer,  Michael  Wil- 
liam Connolly,'  thus  said : 

"That  child  ought  to  write  more;  she  has  a  message  for 
the  world." 

We  insert,  as  an  easy  way  of  describing  their  poetic 
work,  the  following: 

A  CHRISTMAS  CAROL 
(Vesta  Ewing) 
"Brave  shepherds  were  watching 
In  Bethlehem, 

When  angels  brought  tidings 
Unto  them. 

"  'Behold  a  child  is  born. 
This  very  night. 
The  Savior,  Christ  Our  Lord, 
The  Light  of  Light.' 

"The  simple  peasants  bowed 
In  homage  there 
Before  the  Child  who  lay 
In  manger  bare. 

"And  Mary  pondered  these  things 
In  her  mind. 

And   knew   her   Child   was   bom 
To  bless  mankind. 

"And  so  in  after  years 
We  worship  Him 
Who  gave  His  life  to  save 
Our  souls  from  sin. 

"For  though  upon  the  cross 
He  nobly  died. 
Yet  his  great  teachings  were 
Not  Crucified." 

Wide,   Who's   Who   in  America,   1916-17. 


MARY  ELLEN  (WILLIAMS)  EWING 


The  Ewinq  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Bbanohes  161 

A  VISION. 
(Gladys  Ewing) 
"The  wonders  of  the  world  are  manifold — 

That  is  God's  gracious  gift  to  all  mankind ; 

Yet  some  there  are  who  do  not  seek  to  find 
The  treasures  He  bestowed.  The  quest  of  gold 
Has  lured  till  warm  and  tender  hearts  grow  cold, 

A  sordid  search  of  gain  controls  the  mind, 

The  sacred  thoughts  of  life  are  cast  behind. 
And  love  of  self  o'ershadows  young  and  old. 

Oh,  Peter  Pan,  come  from  thine  elfin  home 
And  teach  us  to  forget  and  laugh  once  more; 

With  thee  to  'Never,  Never  Land,'  we'll  roam 
And   faith  renew  in  childish  fairly  lore. 

Let  Youth  and  Joy  and  Love  o'er  all  abide, 

A  Fairyland  is  Life  when  thou  art  guide." 

Both  of  the  daughters,  Vesta  (Ewing)  Vinson,  and 
Gladys  (Ewing)  Combes  (q.  v.)  are  members  of  the  Na- 
tional Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion, National  Numbers  123439  and  123437,  respectively, 
each  with  eight  bars ;  ancestors,  Robert  Ewing,  Ephraim 
McLean,  Surgeon  Francis  Kittredge,  Corporal  Ebenezer 
Eaton,  Colonel  Thomas  Marston  Green,  Captain  William 
Field,  Major  Abner  Field  and  John  Mills  (q.  v.). 

They  are  also  eligible  to  membership  in  the  Virginia 
Society  of  Colonial  Dames;  ancestors,  Robert  Ewing  V 
(q.  v.),  and  Henry  Filmer  and  William  Harwood.' 

MARY    ELLEN     ( WILLIAMS)    EWING* 

wife  of  Presley  K.  Ewing,  was  born  August  7,  1862,  in 
St.  Mary's  Parish,  Louisiana;  married  at  "Sunnyside,"  the 
parental  home,  in  Lafourche  Parish,  Louisiana,  on  Febru- 
ary lo,  1885. 

Mrs.  Ewing  has,  and  deservedly  so,  a  prominent  place 
in  "The  Texas  Women's  Hall  of  Fame,"  published  by  the 
Biographical  Press,  Austin,  Texas  (page  220),  for  her  life 
has  been  checkered  with  deeds  of  public  and  philanthropic 
service,  acts  of  patriotic  devotion,  and  sympathetic  help- 
fulness to  the  wear>^  of  foot  and  saddened  of  heart. 

'The  Virginia  Society  excludes  justices  of  the  peace  of  colonial  times, 
liiit  Kohert  Ewing  was  not  a  justice  of  the  peace;  he  was  a  judge  under  com- 
mission of  King  (ieorge  11  (1754)  with  circuit  court  and  chancery  powers, 
of  a  court  record,  having  unlimited  and  general  jurisdiction  in  civil  mat- 
ters, extending  to  capital  felony  in  criminal  cases.  (V^ide,  Records  of  Bed- 
ford  County,   Va.) 

-Vide,  "Green  Tree,"  supra. 

•Edited  by   her  husband. 


162  The  Ewinq  Genealogy  aa'ith  Cognate  Branches 

She  has  been  secretary  of  the  Ladies  Parish  Association, 
Christ  (Episcopal)  Church,  and  of  the  Robert  E.  Lee 
Chapter,  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy,  and  of  the  Ladies 
Reading  Club,  all  of  Houston,  Texas;  she  has  been  First 
Vice-President  of  State  Congress  of  Mothers,  and  of  St. 
Humane  Society;  she  has  been  President  of  the  Ladies 
Reading  Club,  of  Parent-Teacher  Association,  State  Presi- 
dent of  Sunshine  Society,  and  Chairman  of  Legislative 
Committee  of  Harris  County  Suffrage  Association ;  she  was 
at  the  time  of  her  death  First  Vice-President  of  the  Harris 
County  Humane  Society,  Honorary  President  of  Child's 
Welfare  League,  President  of  the  Nobis  Club  (social),  and 
comparatively  recently,  at  San  Antonio,  refused  the  First 
Vice-Presidency  of  State  Suffrage  Association,  for  want  of 
time  to  discharge  the  arduous  duties  of  the  position. 

She  was  commissioned  by  Governor  O.  L.  Colquitt  on 
April  i6,  1912,  as  a  delegate  to  represent  the  State  of  Texas 
at  the  Southwestern  Conference  on  Tuberculosis,  at  Waco, 
Texas,  and  similarly  she  was  commissioned  on  April  8, 
1913,  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  State  Bureau  of  Child 
and  Animal  Protection,  and  in  like  manner  she  was  ap- 
pointed a  delegate  to  the  State  Conference  of  Charities 
and  Corrections,  held  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  November  30 
to  December  2,  1913,  inclusive. 

The  thought  of  doing  something  for  the  public  weal  was 
with  her  a  dominant  one,  and  in  this  line  of  pursuit,  she 
was  an  inventor,  as  a  sanitary  measure,  of  an  improvement 
in  street  cleaners,  for  the  suction,  ignition  and  immediate 
consumption  of  street  sweepings,  and  was  granted  there- 
for Letters  Patent  of  the  United  States. 

Mrs.  Ewing  may  be  justly  described  as  having  been  in  her 
advocacy  of  measures,  aggressive  and  determined  in  her 
positions,  but  at  the  same  time  she  was  of  engaging  and 
winning  personality,  optimistic,  and  as  before  suggested, 
genial  and  of  sunny  temperament,  cheerful  and  fond  of 
society,  public  spirited,  ready  in  debate  and  resourceful  in 
support  of  her  contentions ;  a  philanthropist  and  benefac- 
tress, full  of  sympathy  for  the  weak  or  suffering,  and  often 
eloquent  in  her  appeals  for  reforms  in  their  interests. 

As  a  club  woman,  she  ever  turned  towards  helpfulness 
of  others  less  fortunate ;  as  president  of  the  Ladies  Reading 
Club,  she  established  a  system  of  circulating  libraries  for 
the  benefit  of  the  country  people;  as  president  of  the  Par- 
ent-Teacher Association  and  United  Mothers  Club,  she  ably 


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The  Ewing  Genealogy  wmr  Cognate  Branches  163 

battled  through  the  Press  and  by  personal  canvass  for  the 
adoption,  and  largely  succeeded  in  the  establishment,  of 
twelve  reforms  in  the  public  schools,  called  the  "twelve 
necessities,"  looking  to  improved  sanitation,  safety  and  de- 
velopment of  the  children,  and  as  an  aid  to  that  end,  she 
advocated  women  on  the  school  board,  which  resulted  in  an 
exciting  municipal  campaign  over  an  amendment  she  had 
proposed  to  the  city  charter,  in  which  she  acquitted  her- 
self with  great  honor,  the  Press,  even  in  Canada,  portray- 
ing her  as  a  woman  who,  though  a  social  leader,  had  turned 
her  talents  to  the  service  of  humanity.  She  ardently  took 
up  the  fight  for  shorter  hours  for  the  store  clerks,  known 
as  the  "six  o'clock  movement,"  and  was  instrumental  in 
effecting  that  reform ;  in  the  course  of  her  advocacy  of 
it,  she  eloquently  argued  before  the  State  Federation  of 
Women's  Clubs  at  San  Antonio,  and  the  National  Federa- 
tion of  Women's  Clubs  at  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  much  of 
her  speech  in  the  latter  instance  being  published  as  a  special 
dispatch  by  great  dailies. 

Through  all  her  enthusiastic  pursuit  of  public  affairs, 
she  lost  none  of  her  domestic  charm,  but  remained  always 
the  cynosure  of  attractiveness  in  the  home,  loving  and  be- 
loved by  her  husband,  daughters,  and  grandchildren,  de- 
voted to  their  interests  and  successes,  and  often  helpfully 
promotive  of  them. 

Mrs.  Ewing  was  accepted  as  a  member  of  the  National 
Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  Na- 
tional Number  130955,  with  three  bars,  ancestors,  John 
Mills,  Captain  William  Field  and  Major  Abner  Field. 


CHAPTER  XXIII. 

WILLIAMS,    FIELD   AND    MILLS    TREES:    LINEAGE   THEREUNDER 
.    OF  MARY  ELLEN  WILLIAMS,   WIFE  OF  PRESLEY  K.   EWING. 

Mrs.  Ewing  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  Clark  Williams, 
and  of  his  wife,  Eudora  Elizabeth  Cross,  and  the  great 
granddaughter  of  William  Field  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth 
Mills. 

THE    WILLIAMS    TREE 

Her  father,  Charles  Clark  Williams,  who  was  bom 
August  21,  1833,  and  died  August  11,  1900,  is  understood 
to  have  been  descended  from  Honorable  William  Williams, 
one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
whose  life  of  great  sacrifice  and  achievement  is  familiar  to 
all,  and  through  him  from  the  Pilgrim  ancestor,  Robert 
Williams,  who  came  to  America,  with  his  wife,  Elizabeth 
Stratton,  in  the  Rose,  1625,  and  helped  to  found  the  town 
of  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  but,  owing  to  the  destruction 
by  fire  of  the  family  records,  the  intermediate  links  cannot 
be  given  with  completeness. 

Much  historic  interest  centers  in  the  name  Williams;  in 
different  forms  it  is  found  in  German  (Wilhelm,  meaning 
"helmet  of  resolution"),  and  in  Dutch,  Danish,  Bohemian, 
French,  Italian  and  Greek.  A  tradition  with  many  ad- 
herents traces  the  name  to  a  tribe  of  North  Wales  in  the 
ninth  century.  The  great  seal  of  William  the  Conquerer 
"Willhelmus"  indicates  that  he  was  a  Williams. 

Oliver  Cromwell  was  a  member  of  the  Williams  family; 
Carlyle  has  it,  "Cromwell  alias  Williams."  His  ancestor 
of  the  blood  was  Morgan  Williams,  a  Welshman  of  con- 
siderable property,  who  married  a  sister  of  Lord  Thomas 
Cromwell,  afterwards  Earl  of  Essex,  whose  descendants 
assumed  the  name  of  Cromwell.  Morgan  Williams'  father 
was  William  Williams,  who  held  a  position  of  honor  in 
the  house  of  the  Duke  of  Bedford.  It  is  also  asserted  that 
Cromwell  was  a  descendant  of  Richard  Williams,  who  as- 
sumed the  name  of  Cromwell  from  his  maternal  uncle 
Thomas  Cromwell,  Secretary  of  State  to  Henry  VIII.,  with 
lineage  extending  to  the  barons  of  the  eleventh  century. 
Roger  Williams,  born  in  Wales,  the  founder  of  Rhode 
Island,  was  a  contemporary  of  Cromwell,  both  born  in  1599, 
and  it  is  said  they  were  personal  friends. 

(164) 


CAPT.  CHARLES  CLARK  WILLIAMS 


CH     XXIII 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  wrrii  Cogxate  Bkanciies  165 

The  coat-of-arms  of  the  Williams  family  of  Wales,  and 
of  Norfolk,  England,  which  was  that  of  the  Pilgrim,  Robert 
Williams,  here  reproduced,  is  sable,  a  lion  rampant,  argent, 
armed  and  languid,  gules ;  crest,  a  fighting  cock,  symbol 
of  watchfulness;  motto,  Y  Fyno  Dwy  Y  Fydd — "What 
God  willeth  will  be ;"  side  motto.  Cognosce  occasionem — 
"watch  your  opportunity  !"* 

The  author  just  cited  in  the  footnote  (Eleanor  Lexing- 
ton) to  whom  we  are  indebted  chiefly  for  the  above  his- 
toric narrative,  thus  observes  upon  the  patriotic  ardor  of 
the  family : 

"The  Williams'  have  always  been  true  to  their  flag  in 
war.  Call  to  arms  aroused  their  fighting  blood.  They 
were  in  the  ranks,  they  were  fifers,  drummers,  drum- 
majors,  ensigns,  surgeons,  quarter-masters,  sergeants,  cap- 
tains, corporals,  colonels,  lieutenants,  adjutants,  majors, 
generals,   brigadier-generals. 

"Joseph  Warren,  who  fell  at  Bunker  Hill,  was  fifth  in 
descent  from  Robert  Williams,  Pilgrim.  General  Otto  Wil- 
liams was  a  confidant  of  Washington's.  William  Williams, 
also  a  lineal  descendant  of  Robert,  was  a  member  of  Con- 
gress,  1776,  and  a  signer  from  Connecticut." 

Charles  Clark  Williams,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Ewing,  re- 
ceived his  early  education  at  Georgetown  Military 
Academy,  Kentucky ;  he  was  the  son  of  Joseph  Crawley 
(born  1773,  died  1857),  ^  scholarly  man,  a  college  professor 
of  Greek  and  Latin,  and  of  Harriett  (Gark)  Williams, 
who  were  born  in  Culpepper  County,  C.  H.,  Virginia,  and 
afterwards  lived  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  whence  they  re- 
moved to  Lexington,  Kentucky,  and  later,  in  1828,  to 
Lafourche,  Louisiana.  He  accompanied  his  parents  in 
these  removals,  and,  having  espoused  the  cause  of  seces- 
sion, he  joined  the  Confederate  army  in  1862,  was  a  gal- 
lant soldier,  serving  as  captain  of  company  C  in  Colonel 
Vick's  regiment  of  infantry,  and  participating  in  the  en- 
gagements at  Bisland,  Brashear  (now  Morgan  City)  and 
Vermillion  bayou.  In  1855,  he  married  Miss  A^melia  Camp, 
of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  who  died  the  following  year, 
leaving  no  issue;  and,  on  February  13,  1861,  he  married 
Miss  Eudora  Elizabeth  Cross,  from  which  union  was  born 
the  daughter,  Mary  Ellen,  who  was  the  eldest  child,  and  in 
her  are  to  be  found  many  of  her  father's  splendid  qualities  to 

*Eleanor  Lexington's  sketch  in  the  Times  Democrat,  of  New  Orleans,  La. 


166  The  Ewing  Genealogy  wrni  Cognate  Branches 

a  very  marked  degree;  among  them,  a  resolute  purpose, 
dauntless  and  invincible,  indefatigable  energy  in  the  prose- 
cution of  an  endeavor,  and  withal  a  sunshiny  temperament 
like  a  benediction.  His  capacity  to  overcome  opposition  as 
well  as  obstacles  was  strikingly  shown  by  the  readiness  with 
which  he  repaired  the  ravages  of  the  Civil  War,  which 
destroyed  the  considerable  fortune  he  had  accumulated ;  for 
thereafter,  he  rapidly  became  one  of  the  wealthiest  and 
most  influential  of  the  sugar  planters  of  his  section  (La- 
fourche, Louisiana),  and  best  of  all,  through  the  trying 
ordeal  of  the  regaining  struggle,  he  preserved  untarnished 
his  unswerving  integrity  and  honor,  bearing  ever  aloft  the 
family  escutcheon,  and  so  guiding  his  course  that  he,  re- 
spected by  all  and  loved  by  those  who  knew  him,  might  at 
each  nightfall  exclaim :  "Tomorrow,  do  thy  worst,  I've 
lived  to-day !" 

THE    FIELD    TREE 

This  is  a  family  woven  illustriously  into  the  history  of 
America,  with  talents  in  intellectual  pursuits  as  diversified 
as  the  affairs  of  men.  Notable  among  the  distinguished  of 
the  name,  being  of  the  same  family,  are  included  David 
Dudley  Field,  D.  D.  (1781-1867),  of  Connecticut  (who 
was  graduated  from  Yale  and  became  one  of  the  most 
venerable  of  the  ministers  of  New  England),  and  his  re- 
markably gifted  sons,  (i)  David  Dudley  (1805-1904), 
graduated  from  Williams  College,  a  very  eminent  lav.yer; 
(2)  Stephen  Johnson,  bom  1816,  famous  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States;  (3)  Cyrus  West 
(1819-1892),  of  great  and  successful  business  enterprise; 
(4)  the  Rev.  Henry  Martyn,  born  1822,  a  prominent  minis- 
ter and  distinguished  author." 

The  task  of  tracing  the  lineage  of  the  Fields  has  been 
in  the  main  relieved  of  original  research  by  us,  as  that  work 
has  been  so  admirably  performed  by  others,  from  whom  we 
quote  freely. 

In  "Genealogy  of  the  Fields  of  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,"  as  traced  by  Mrs.  Harriet  A.  Brownwell,  we  read : 

"It  is  said  by  the  genealogist  of  the  family  of  Zachariah 
Field,  who  first  settled  in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  that 
'the  first  individuals  of  the  name  of  Field, — William  and 
John — that  settled  in  Providence,  emigrated  to  this  coun- 
try in  1632,  and  no  record  of  this  family  is  to  be  found  in 

^Int.    Encyclopedia,  Vol.   5,  pp.   830  831. 


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The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  167 

Rhode  Island  earlier  than  1636.  At  tliat  time  we  find  the 
name  of  William  Ffeld,  Ffeild,  or  Ffield,  and  a  year  later 
that  of  John  Ffeld,  Ffeild,  or  Ffield,  in  the  public  records 
of  Providence.' 

"Roth  William  and  John  Ffield  were  employed  in  the 
transaction  of  the  business  of  the  colonies,  and  both  were 
appointed  members  of  a  Committee  for  arranging  and  estab- 
lishing a  'General  Court'  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  in 
1646. 

"It  is  stated  by  Henry  M.  Field,  the  genealogist  of  the 
family  of  his  father,  David  Dudley  Field,  D.  D.,  of  Stock- 
bridge,  Massachusetts,  that  a  few  years  after  the  arrival 
of  his  ancestor,  Zachariah  Field,  who  settled  in  Dorchester, 
Massachusetts,  two  brothers,  William  and  John  Field,  ap- 
peared at  Providence,  from  whom  are  descended  a  large 
number  of  Fields  in  the  State  of  Rhode  Island.'  "  (In- 
troduction, p.  3). 

Again  (p.  5),  as  follows: 

"Most  of  the  descendants  of  Thomas  Field,  the  nephew 
and  heir  of  the  first  William  Field,  settled  in  other  States, 
where  they  and  some  of  their  descendants  have  left  an 
honorable  record.  The  sons  of  Captain  (William)  Field 
of  Field's  Point,  were  all  of  them  noted  men.  A  person 
who  was  familiar  with  the  society  of  their  day  said  of  them, 
'no  young  men  in  the  State  were  more  looked  up  to  than 
Abner  and  Nehemiah  Field.'  They  both  held  commissions 
in  the  Continental  Army  before  they  were  21  years  old,  and 
were  present  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  They  were  lead- 
ing men  in  public  life  and  some  of  their  descendants  are 
among  the  most  enterprising  Western  men.  'Hon.  George 
Field,  of  Cranston,'  the  youngest  son  of  Captain  William, 
held  a  high  social  position  and  was  noted  for  his  moral 
and  social  qualities.  He  was  always  in  public  life.  His 
stern  sense  of  right  and  his  unyielding  integrity,  his  stately 
and  dignified  bearing,  caused  him  occasionally  to  be  alluded 
to  as  an  'Old  Roman  Senator.'  One  of  our  orators  in 
describing  the  Rhode  Island  Assembly  of  other  days  alluded 
to  'George  Field,  the  Cato  of  the  Senate.'  " 

In  "Record  of  the  Family  of  the  late  Rev.  David  Dudley 
Field,  D.  D.,"  by  his  youngest  son,  Henry  Martyn  Fiekl, 
it  is  said  (p.  5)  : 

"The  name  of  Field  is  an  ancient  and  honorable  one  in 
England.     Some  who  have  made  a  study  of  the  subject  pro- 


168  The  Ewing  Genealogy  wrru  Cognate  Branches 

fess  to  have  traced  it  back  to  the  time  of  WilUam  the 
Conquerer." 

And  again  (same  page)  : 

"It  (the  Field  Family)  runs  back  directly  to  one  who 
came  to  New  England  not  more  than  lo  or  12  years  after 
the  Pilgrims  landed  on  Plymouth  Rock,  who  was  himself 
a  Puritan  and  bore  the  old  scriptural  name  of  Zachariah. 
A  few  years  later,  two  brothers,  William  and  John  Field, 
appear  at  Providence,  from  whom  are  descended  the  large 
number  of  Fields  in  the  State  of  Rhode  Island.  In  1644 
Robert  Field  came  to  the  Massachusetts  Colony,  and  the 
year  after  removed  to  Flushing,  on  Long  Island,  where  with 
others  he  obtained  land  from  the  Dutch  Governor  at  New 
Amsterdam,  as  New  York  was  then  called.  He  became 
the  ancestor  of  the  Fields  of  Long  Island  and  New 
Jersey.  *  *  *  * 

"This  Zachariah  Field  was  the  son  of  John  Field,  a 
grandson  of  John  Field,  the  astronomer." 

And  (p.  10)  : 

"Timothy  Field,  a  descendant  of  Zachariah,  fought  in 
the  Revolution — joined  Seventh  Regiment  in  Kentucky,  and 
was  appointed  sergeant  major." 

In  the  work  of  two  volumes  "Field  Genealogy,"  by  Fred- 
erick Clifton  Pierce,  which  purports  to  give  a  record  of  all 
the  Fields  in  America  whose  ancestors  were  in  this  Coun- 
try prior  to  the  year  1700,  it  is  said  (Vol.  I,  pp.  9-10)  : 

"The  name  of  Field  is  an  ancient  and  honorable  one  in 
England,  and  can  be  traced  far  back  of  the  Conquest. 
Probably  not  a  dozen  families  in  England  can  prove  so 
high  an  antiquity.  *  *  *  Burke  states  in  one  edition  of  his 
'Landed  Gentry,'  under  the  head  of  De  La  Field,  that  this 
family  was  originally  in  Alsace  near  the  Vosges  Moun- 
tains, where  it  was  seated  at  the  Chateau  de  la  Field,  near 
Colmar  from  the  darkest  period  of  the  middle  ages ;  and 
the  Counts  de  la  Field  were  the  once  powerful  proprietors 
of  the  demesnes  and  castles  near  Colmar,  of  which  the  lat- 
ter still  bears  their  name.  These  lords  had  large  possessions 
in  Alsace  and  Lorraine,  and  are  frequently  mentioned  in  the 
wars  of  these  countries.  *  *  *  The  ancestor  of  the  Field 
family,  the  first  of  whom  there  is  any  record,  was  Huber- 
tus  de  la  Field,  who  went  to  England  with  William  the 
Conqueror  in  the  year  1066  from  near  Colmar  in  Alsace, 
on  the  German  border  of  France.  He  was  of  the  family 
of  the  Counts  de  la  Field,  who  trace  back  to  the  darkest 


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period  of  the  middle  ages,  about  the  sixth  century.  In 
Alsace  the  de  la  Fields  entertained  in  the  XI  Century  Pope 
Leo  IX  and  his  court  on  the  way  to  consecrate  Strasburgh. 
The  edifice  received  many  benefactions  at  their  hands,  and 
several  of  them  are  interred  there  in  the  Chanteries  they 
founded." 

And  at  p.  23  : 

"Hubertus  de  la  Field  received  of  William  the  Conqueror 
large  grants  of  land  for  military  services.  In  the  XIV 
century,  in  consequence  of  wars  between  England  and 
France,  the  English  de  la  Fields  dropped  their  French  pre- 
fix de  la,  and  ever  after  wrote  their  name  Field.  As  previ- 
ously stated,  Sir  Hubertus,  the  first  in  England,  settled  in 
Lancaster  near  the  city  of  Chester." 

Again  (pp.  108-113),  it  is  said: 

"In  the  sixteenth  century  the  name  is  illustrated  by  a  dis- 
tinguished astronomer,  John  Field,  who  was  the  first  to  in- 
troduce the  Copernican  system  into  England.  Copernicus 
died  in  1543,  leaving  as  a  legacy  to  the  world,  his  great 
work,  'The  Revolution  of  the  Celestial  Orbs,'  in  which  he 
overthrew  the  system  of  Ptolemy,  which  had  ruled  the 
world  for  over  2,000  years." 

The  author  just  cited  (Frederick  Clifton  Pierce),  after 
reviewing  the  Rev.  Henry  Martyn  Field's  proofs  that  .the 
family  to  which  these  pages  relate  is  descended  from  the 
astronomer,  John  Field,  thus  comments  (p.  113)  : 

"These  testimonies  create  a  probability,  amounting  to  a 
moral  certainty  *  *  *  These  combined  proofs  can  hardly 
leave  a  doubt  in  the  minds  of  the  several  branches  of  the 
Field  family,  in  America,  that  they  are  descended  from 
John  Field,  the  astronomer." 

THOMAS    FIELD 

"the  nephew  and  heir  of  the  first  William  Field,"  was  born 
about  1648,  in  England,  died  August  10,  1717;  he  swore 
allegiance  to  King  Charles  II.,  June  i,  1667,  and  was  chosen 
Treasurer  of  the  town  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  where 
he  resided,  on  June  3,  1672'  He  married  in  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  Martha  Harris,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  (Austin)  Field;  she  died  about  1717.' 

He  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Field,  probably  bom  in 
Thurnscoe,    England,    grandson    of    William    Field,    great 

^Early   Records,   B.  3,  323. 

^Frederick   C.    Pierce's    "Field   Genealogy."    Vol.    1,   pp.    124-126. 


170  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

grandson  of  John  Field,  and  great  great  grandson  of 
Richard  Field,  and  great  great  great  grandson  of  Wil- 
liam Field,  whose  father  was  also  named  William, 
but  the  author  just  cited,  while  tracing  these  ancestors,  does 
not  review  their  families,  simply  saying  in  a  note:  "Names 
of  early  ancestors  are  dropped.     See  former  generations.'" 

Children  born  to  Thomas  and  Mary  (Harris)  Field 
were : 

(i)  THOMAS,  born  January  3,  1670;  married  (first) 
Abigail  Hopkins,  and  (second)  Abigail  Chaffee. 

(2)  Mary,  born  June  i,  1673;  married  John  Dexter. 

(3)  Amos,  bom  1677,  died  unmarried. 

(4)  William,  born  June  8,  1682,  married  Mary 
Mathewson. 

(5)  Martha,  married  Thomas  Mathewson. 

(6)  Elizabeth,  married  John  Yeats,  junior,  January  24, 
1709= 

THOMAS    FIELD 

son  of  Thomas  and  Martha  (Harris)  Field  (q.  v.),  bom 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  January  3,  1670;  died  there  on 
July  17,  1752;  married  (first)  Abigail  Hopkins,  daughter 
of  William  and  Abigail  Hopkins,  and  (Second)  Abigail 
Chaffee,  April  28,  1737,  she  dying  shortly  after  1752. 
Children,  being  by  his  first  wife,  were : 
(i)     Thomas,  born  1696. 

(2)  Stephen,  wife's  name  Sarah;  he  died  at  sea  Sep- 
tember 10,  1727. 

(3)  Jeremiah,  bora  before  1706;  married  Abigail 
Waterman. 

(4)  Nathaniel,  married  Margaret  Barstow. 

(5)  Anthony,  married  Mehitable  Whipple. 

(6)  Joseph,  born  before  1699;  died  at  sea  October  5, 
1736,  probably  unmarried.^ 

JEREMIAH   FIELD 

son  of  Thomas  and  Abigail  (Hopkins)  Field  (q.  v.),  was 
bom  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  before  1706,  died  Sep- 
tember 2,  1768,  where  he  then  resided,  either  Cranston  or 
Providence,  Rhode  Island;  he  was  married  December  27, 
1725,  to  Abigail  Waterman,  daughter  of  Justice  Richard 
Waterman.     Children  of  the  marriage  were: 

'Id.,   Vol    1,  p.    105. 

-'Field    Genealogy,"    Vol    1,   pp.    124-126. 

■Id.,  Vol.   1,  pp.' 175-177. 


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(i)  WILLIAM,  born  April  30,  1728;  married  Waite 
Wescott. 

(2)  Abigail,  born  Januar)^  2j,  1730;  married  October 
7,  1743,  Benjamin  Gorham ;  he  was  the  son  of  Jabez,  son 
of  Captain  John  Gorham,  of  Gorhamburg,  England,  and 
Desire  Rowland,  who  came  to  America  in  the  Mayflower. 

(3)  Sarah,  bom  March  16,  1735,  died  in  Chester,  Ver- 
mont; married  George  Rounds,  January,  1758. 

(4)  James,  born  July  31,  1738;  married  (first)  Hannah 
Stone,  and   (second)   Jane  Stone. 

(5)  Thomas,  bom  September  7,  1741,  married  Deliver- 
ance Hammon. 

(6)  Daniel,  born  August  30,  1743;  married  Hannah 
Whitman. 

(7)  Jeremiah,  born  July  14,  1746;  married  Lydia 
Colwell. 

(8)  Hannah,  born  November  13,  1749;  married  Jere- 
miah Randall.' 

WILLIAM    FIELD 

son  of  Jeremiah  and  Abigail  (Waterman)  Field  (q.  v.), 
was  born,  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  April  30,  1728,  died 
in  1816;  he  married  January  4,  1750,  Waite  Wescott, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Wescott;  she  was  bom  in  1732,  died 
September  23,  1808.     Their  children  were: 

(i)     Remember,  bom  September  7,  1751 ;  died  April  12, 

1755- 

(2)  Pardon,  born  May,   1753;  died  April,   1755. 

(3)  ABNER,  bom  July  5,  1754;  married  Rebecca  Payne. 

(4)  Moses,  bom  March   21,    1756;   died  December  6, 

1763- 

(5)  Nehemiah,  born  May  15,  1757;  married  Sarah 
Whitman. 

(6)  Roxana,  born  February  20,  1759;  died  unmarried, 
March  26,  1778. 

(7)  Esther,  bom  January  10,  1761 ;  married  July  13, 
1783,  Captain  William  Waterman,  of  Cranston,  Rhode 
Island. 

(8)  David,  born  March  2",  1763;  married  Mary 
Greene. 

(9)  Huldah,  born  August  2,  1764;  died  April  11,  1S24; 
married  (first)  Mr.  Tabor,  and  (second)  John  Warner, 
February  22,  1798. 

i"Ficld    Genealogy,"    Vol.    1.   pp.    242-244. 


172  The  Ewinq  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

(10)  Rhoda,  born  February  14,  1767;  died  unmarried, 
December  26,  1832. 

(11)  George,  born  December  25,  1768;  died  August  29, 
1839;  married  Abigail  Davis,  daughter  of  Moses  Davis; 
she  was  born  1775,  died  August  26,  1873. 

(12)  Eleanor,  born  December  13,  1772;  died  unmar- 
ried, March  8,  1864/ 

From  the  authority  just  cited,  same  reference,  we  quote, 
as  follows : 

"The  presence  of  the  French  allies  inspired  the  life  of 
the  town.  *  *  *  The  officers  were  on  terms  of  pleasant 
intimacy  with  the  leading  families,  and  their  presence  im- 
parted an  additional  charm  to  social  gayety.  *  *  *  The 
old  Field  homestead,  at  Field's  Point,  was  much  frequented 
by  the  French  officers,  where  they  were  always  sure  of  a 
hearty  hospitality,  and  where  they  participated  in  social 
assemblies.  *  *  * 

"The  patriotism  of  the  Field  Family  was  of  the  purest 
sort.  In  1780,  William  Field  was  appointed  captain  of  a 
company  in  the  2nd  regiment,  '  of  Providence  County 
Militia.  *  *  * 

"The  Field  family  at  the  Point  were  numerous.  The 
last  survivor  of  the  William  Field  family  was  Eleanor,  a 
woman  of  uncommon  natural  endowments.  She  sold  the 
Point  estate  to  the  City  of  Providence,  and  removed  to 
Elmwood,  and  died  March  8,  1864,  aged  91  years." 

Captain  William  Field,  the  subject  of  this  division,  served 
as  captain  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  for  the  cause  of 
Independence,  of  Third  Company  Militia,  Cranston,  May, 
1778,  down  to  June,  1779,  and  was  captain,  appointed  in 
February,  1780,  of  a  company  in  the  Second  Regiment  of 
Providence  County  Militia,  which  service  is  established  by 
the  following  references : 

C.  R.  S.  A.,  Vol.  8,  p.  394,  Vol.  9,  p.  9 : 

Field  Genealogy  (1901)  by  Frederick  Clifton  Pierce, 
Vol.  I,  pp.  63,  364,  546. 

Revolutionary  Defenses  in  Rhode  Island,  by  Edward 
Field,  pp.  7,  80,  88. 

Records  of  State  of  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plan- 
tations. 

Rhode  Island  Society  Military  Papers. 

'"Field   Genealogy,"   Vol   1,   pp.   364-365. 


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ABNER    FIELD 

son  of  (Captain)  William  and  Waite  (Wescott)  Field, 
(q.  v.),  was  born  July  5,  1754,  Providence,  Rhode  Island, 
died  in  1792;  he  married  (first)  Chloe  Whipple,  no  chil- 
dren, and  (second)  Rebecca  Payne,  daughter  of  Captain 
John  Payne,  of  Cranston,  Rhode  Island,  February  2,2,  1779; 
she  was  bom  in  1760,  died  June  19,  181 1.  He  was  survived 
by  four  children,  all  born  of  the  second  marriage,  namely : 
(i)  WILLIAM,  born  in  1780,  died  in  1845;  married 
Elizabeth  Mills. 

(2)  Robert  Wescott,  born  February  28,  1781 ;  married 
his  cousin  Lydia,  daughter  of  Pardon  and  Elizabeth  (Wil- 
liams) Field. 

(3)  Abner  Whipple,  bom  in  1775;  married  Betsy 
Tarbell. 

(4)  Stephen,  born  January  10,  1791  ;  married  Mary 
Jordan.' 

The  text  just  cited,  same  reference,  has  this  to  say: 

"Major  Abner  Field  *  *  *  was  the  son  of  Captain  Wil- 
liam Field  of  Field's  Point,  Rhode  Island.  Abner  was 
noted  for  his  personal  bravery.  When  he  heard  the  news 
of  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  and  the  burning  of  Charleston, 
he  instantly  (1777)  joined  the  volunteers,  the  Pawtuxet 
Rangers,  at  Cranston  or  Longneck,  now  called  Pawtuxet 
Neck,  under  Lieutenant  Colonel  Oliver  Arnold,  second  de- 
tachment. In  July,  1778,  he  was  on  duty  at  Pawtuxet 
under  Colonel  Benjamin  Arnold." 

Again  (pp.  364-365)  : 

"Abner  and  Nehemiah  Field  were  distinguished  for  per- 
sonal bravery.  When  the  news  reached  them  of  the  battle 
of  Bunker  Hill,  and  the  burning  of  Charleston,  like  Putman, 
they  instantly  left  the  field,  and  with  rifle  in  hand  joined  the 
volunteers  crowding  on  the  scene  of  action.  They  were 
placed  in  the  body  of  reserves.  During  the  war  Abner  was 
taken  prisoner  and  thrust  into  the  notorious  Jersey  ship 
prison.     Both  Abner  and  Nehemiah  held  commissions." 

The  following  references  established  the  services  of 
Abner  Field,  above  mentioned,  in  the  cause  of  Independence 
as  a  soldier  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  also  similarly  of  his 
brother  Nehemiah : 

"Field  Genealogy,"  by  Frederick  Clifton  Pierce,  Vol  I, 
pp.  63,  364-365.   546. 

"■Field   Genealogy,"   Vol    1,   p.  546. 


174  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

Revolutionary  Defenses  in  Rhode  Island,  by  Edward 
Field,  pp.  7,  80,  88. 

Rhode  Island  Society  Military  Papers. 

Genealogy  of  the  Fields  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  by 
Harriet  Brownwell,  p.  5. 

Records  of  State  of  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plan- 
tations. 

Nehemiah  Field,  the  brother  above  mentioned  of  Abner 
Field  (q.  v.),  was  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution, 
ensign  in  Captain  Jeremiah  Olney's  4th.  Company,  Colonel 
David  Hitchcock's  Regiment  of  the  Army  of  Observation, 
1775.  He  (Nehemiah)  was  born  May  15,  1757,  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island,  died  May  15,  1815,  married  August 
27,  1 781,  Sarah  Whitman,  bom  September  25,  1761,  died 
July  21,  183 1.  Their  children  were:  (i)  Arthur  F.,  born 
December  18,  1782,  wife's  name  Chloe;  (2)  Aaron  Leland, 
bom  October  14,  1787,  married  (first)  Anna  Ostrander. 
and  (second)  Diana  Mowr)^  (3)  William  Whitman,  and 
(4)  Amy  Waite;  the  last  two  having  died  apparently  witli- 
out  issue.  Amy  Waite  certainly  so,  she  dying  in  infancy.' 

WILLIAM    FIELD 

son  of  Major  Abner  and  Rebecca  (Payne)  Field  (q.  v.), 
was  born  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  in  1780,  probably  in 
January,  died  in  Lafourche  Parish,  Louisiana,  in  1845; 
married  Elizabeth  Mills,  daughter  of  the  Revolutionary 
soldier,  John  Mills,  in  1841 ;  she  was  bom  in  1795,  died  in 

1845. 

William  Field  left  Rhode  Island  when  young  and  un- 
married, and  went  West,  finally  settling  on  the  Lafourche 
in  Louisiana,  and  seems  in  consequence  of  drifting  away 
from  early  associations  to  have  been  lost  sight  of  for  a  time 
in  the  East  and  assumed  to  have  died  young,  unmarried. 

In  point  of  fact,  after  settling  in  Louisiana,  he  was  pros- 
perous and  accumulated  considerable  wealth.  Field  Lake, 
near  Lockport,  Louisiana,  was  named  for  him.  He  was  an 
architect,  but  engaged  in  various  business  enterprises,  be- 
came prominent  in  the  section  of  his  domicile  and  when  he 
died  on  the  Lafourche,  in  1845,  ^e  was  much  eulogized  by 
the  Press  and  lamented  by  a  large  circle  of  relatives  and 
friends. 

As  stated,  he  married  Elizabeth  Mills,  in  18 14,  and  by 
her  he  had  eleven  children : 

i"Field  Genealogy,"   pp.   S46-.W. 


EUDORA  ELIZABETH  (CROSS)  WILLIAMS 


The  Ewixg  Genealogy  wirii  Cogxate  Branches  175 

(i)  William,  born  1815,  died  1848. 

(2)  Eliza,  died  1897. 

(3)  Sarah  C. 

(4)  John  Haywood,  died  1854. 

(5)  MARY  PIERCE,  born  1819,  died  March  13,   1893. 

(6)  Hudson,  died   1866. 

(7)  Josephine,  bom  1845. 

(8)  Edwin,  died  1853. 

(9)  Fielding,  died  young. 

(10)  Adalia,  died  young. 

(11)  Maria,  born  September  21,  1835,  ^i^^  Januarj^  15, 
191 1,  married  \\'illiam  Darden. 

MARY  PIERCE  FIELD 

daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Mills)  Field  (q.  v.) 
was  born  in  Lafourche  Parish,  Louisiana,  in  1819,  died 
March  13,  1893,  and  was  buried  in  St.  John's  (Episcopal) 
Cemetery,  at  Thibodaux,  the  seat  of  the  parish  just  men- 
tioned; she  was  married  March  3,  1844,  to  Benjamin 
Franklin  Cross,  who  was  a  sugar  planter  of  the  Lafourche, 
born  in  1823,  died  in  1868.  They  had  one  child,  Eudora 
Elisabeth,  born  February   12,   1845. 

Mrs.  Mary  Pierce  (Field)  Cross,  after  the  death  of  her 
husband,  lived  at  "Sunny side,"  the  home  of  her  son-in-law, 
Charles  Clark  Williams,  and  by  her  tender  care  and  gentle 
ministrations  she  became  so  endeared  to  her  daughter's 
children,  that  they  regarded  her  not  as  grandmother  only, 
but  as  their  dualistic  mother,  and  as  such  her  memory  re- 
mained hallowed  in  their  hearts. 

EUDORA    ELIZABETH    CROSS 

daughter  of  Benjamin  Franklin  and  Mary  Pierce  (Field) 
Cross,  was  born  in  Lafourche  Parish,  February  12,  1844, 
died  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  October  21,  1918,  married 
February  12,  1861,  Charles  Clark  Williams,  before  men- 
tioned, who  was  born  August  21,  1833,  died  August  11, 
1900.     They  had  eleven  children: 

1.  MARY  ELLEN  (q.  V.),  bom  in  St.  Mary's  Parish,  in 
or  near  New  Iberia,  Louisiana,  on  August  7,  1862,  wife  of 
Presley  K.  Ewing,  and  mother  of  Josie  Vesta  (Vinson)  and 
Gladys  Ewing  (Combes)  ;  she  died  April  i,  1919. 

2.  Charles  Albert,  born  and  died  in  1864. 

3.  Joseph  Crawley,  born  February   12,   1866. 

4.  Dora  Louise,  born  December  8,  1867,  married  at 
"Sunnyside,"  April  4,  1888,  Henry  Garland  Bush,  of  New 

12 


176  TiiE  EwiNG  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

Orleans,  Louisiana,  born  October  lo,  1866;  he  died  Feb- 
ruary 20,  191 1.    Children: 

(i)  John  Garland,  born  February  28,  1891,  in  New 
Orleans.     He  was  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  World  War. 

(2)  Phillis  Gresham,  born  October  25,  1892,  in  New 
Orleans;  married  December  14,  1916,  William  Victor 
Wrightson,  of  New  Orleans,  born  November  12,   1886. 

(3)  Harry,  born  September  3,  1893.  He  was  also  a 
lieutenant  in  the  World  War,  and  fought  overseas. 

(4)  Ruby  Bethea,  born  December  26,  1901. 

(5)  Gretchen,  born  September  5,  1905. 

AH  born  in  or  near  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  except 
Gretchen,  born  in  Atlanta,  Georgia. 

5.  William  Franklin,  born  December  26,  1869,  married 
in  New  Orleans,  March  4,  1916,  Marie  (LeFoul)  Loubat, 
a  widow. 

6.  Charles  Clark  Williams,  junior,  born  November  17, 
1871,  died  at  "Sunnyside,"  August  10,  1887. 

7.  Minnie  Roberta,  unmarried,  born  March  17,  1874. 

8.  Daisy  Belle,  born  November  2^,  1875;  married  April 
24,  1895,  Beverly  Smith,  M.  D.,  of  Franklin,  Louisiana, 
born  April  17,  1870.     Children: 

( 1 )  Beverly  Chew,  B.  A.,  University  of  Virginia,  and 
later  from  same  University,  degree  M.  D.,  born  at  Frank- 
lin, Louisiana,  February  7,   1896. 

(2)  Daisy  Belle,  born  same  town,  April  6,  1899,  a 
student  at  Sophie  Newcomb,  New  Orleans,  Louisiana. 

9.  Ruby  Bethea,  born  July  28,  1877;  ^^^^  November  14, 
1918. 

10.  Morgan  Whitney,  born  June  29,  1879;  died  in  Nev»' 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  May  19,  1914;  married  January  11, 
191 1,  near  Zachary,  Louisiana,  at  the  bride's  home,  Judith 
Coleman  Mills,  his  cousin,  born  about  1880.     Children: 

(i)  Morgan  Whitney,  born  January  12,  1912;  died 
June  5,  191 7,  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana. 

(2)  Judith  Coleman,  born  May  29,  1914 — both  born 
near  Zachary,  Louisiana. 

11.  Warren  Dudley,  born  February  12,  1881,  married 
in  Donaldsonville,  Louisiana,  on  June  24,  191 5,  Elizabeth 
St.  Vrain  Moebius,  born  November  14,  1892,  Point  Coupee 
Parish,  Louisiana,  daughter  of  John  and  Ida  Clara 
(Brown)   Moebius. 

All  the  children  of  C.  C.  and  Eudora  E.  Williams  were 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Ckancues  177 

born  at  "Sunnyside,"  Lafourche  Parish,  Louisiana,  except 
Mary  Ellen,  whose  place  of  birth  has  been  given. 

The  "Little  Mother,"  as  she  was  called  in  the  family, 
Eudora  (Cross)  Williams,  removed  from  the  old  home- 
stead, "Sunnyside,"  before  her  death,  taking  up  her  abode 
in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana.  Possessed  of  a  charming  per- 
sonality, with  a  certain  poetic  grace  and  alertness  of  in- 
terest, she  was  in  society  a  general  favorite.  Even  to  the 
last,  traces  of  her  early  great  beauty  were  visible ;  indeed 
in  every  line  of  her  face,  it  would  not  have  been  difficult 
to  discern,  as  some  writer  has  expressed  it,  "a  dimple  of 
her  youth."  Always  devoted  in  her  sacrifices  as  a  wife 
and  of  motherhood,  and  kindly  considerate  of  others,  her 
life  was  luminous  with  virtues  which  have  adorned  exalted 
womanhood  in  all  the  ages  of  enlightenment. 

Minnie  Roberta  and  Ruby  Bethea  Williams  (q.  v.)  be- 
came members  of  the  National  Society  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution,  National  Numbers  1 25106  and 
128979,  under  Captain  William  Field  and  Major  Abner 
Field,  also  under  John  Mills,  each  entitled  to  three  ances- 
tral bars. 

The  other  descendants  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Mills) 
Field,  if  otherwise  qualified,  are  similarly  eligible  to  the 
patriotic  societies. 

THE  MILLS  TREE 
JOHN   MILLS 

the  great  great  grandfather  of  Mary  Ellen  (Williams) 
Ewing,  was  the  son  of  Amos  and  Mary  (Wright)  Mills; 
he  was  born  in  Virginia,  1758,  and  removed  thence  with 
his  parents  to  Pennsylvania,  where  he  engaged  with  them 
in  farming;  he  was  a  gallant  soldier,  under  enlistment  in 
Pennsylvania,  for  Independence  in  the  War  of  the  Revolu- 
tion; he  stood  (for  he  was  one  of  them)  "where  stood  the 
embattled  farmers  and  fired  the  shot  was  heard  around  the 
world." 

Mrs.  Ewing  (Mary  Ellen)  has  been  accepted  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  National  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution,  tracing  to  him  as  her  ancestor.  National 
No.  130955.  In  her  application  his  soldier-service  is  refer- 
red to  as  having  been  as  "a  Private  in  Captain  Joseph  Gard- 
ner's Company,  Second  Battalion,  East  Notingham,  Chester 


178  The  Evving  Genealogy  wrm  Cognate  Branches 

County  Militia,  commanded  by  Colonel  Evan  Evans,  1778," 
and  reference  is  made  therefor  to  "Page  521,  Volume  Five, 
Pennsylvania  Archives,  Fifth  Series." 

Under  the  evidence,  with  apparent  proper  elimination, 
this  is  correct;  but  whatever  the  company  or  companies  or 
period  or  periods  of  his  service,  the  essential  fact  is  beyond 
question,  that  he  was  a  soldier  for  Independence  in  the 
War  of  the  Revolution. 

In  addition  to  family  tradition  and  ancient  letters,  bear- 
ing convincing  evidence  of  his  Revolutionary  service  in 
Pennsylvania,  there  is  still  in  the  family  of  his  grandson, 
Thomas  L.  Mills,  M.  D.,  of  Zachary,  Louisiana,  the  sword 
which  has  been  handed  down  as  worn  by  him,  John  Mills, 
in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  and  upon  which  there  is  the 
inscription :  "Draw  me  not  without  reason,  put  me  up  not 
without  honor." 

He  (John  Mills)  removed  about  the  beginning  of  the 
year  1781  to  Point  Coupee  Parish,  Louisiana,  where  on 
April  16,  of  that  year,  he  was  married  to  Ferine  Marioneau, 
who  was  born  in  1762,  and  died  in  1829;  he  died  in  1825.* 
Their  children  were : 

1.  Mary,  born  1782,  married  Mr.  Pierce. 

2.  Plaegah,  born   1790,  died  unmarried. 

3.  Ferine,  born  1793,  married  Hudson  Tabor. 

4.  ELIZABETH,  bom  1795,  married  William  Field. 

5.  John,  born  1797,  married  Eunice  Lilly. 

ELIZABETH   MILLS 

daughter  of  John  and  Ferine  (Marioneau)  Mills,  and  great 
grandmother  of  Mary  Ellen  (Williams)  Ewing  (q.  v.)  was 
born  in  1795,  and  died  in  1845;  she  married  William  Field 
(q.  V.)  in  1814. 

From  this  point  the  Mills  line  is  the  same  as  the  Field 
line  (supra),  to  which  we  refer. 


'Records   of  Point   Coupee   Parish,   La. 


JOSIE  VESTA  (EWING)  VINSON 


CHAPTER  XXIV. 

JOSIE    VESTA     (eWING)    VINSON,    DAUGHTER    OF    PRESLEY 

KITTREDGE  AND  MARY   ELLEN    (WILLIAMS)    EWING! 

HER   LIFE,    MARRIAGE   AND   CHILDREN. 

JOSIE  VESTA  EWING 

daughter  of  Presley  Kittredge  Ewing  and  Mary  Ellen  Wil- 
liams (q.  v.),  was  born  at  "Sunnyside,"  Lafourche  Parish, 
Louisiana,  on  February  ii,  1886;  educated  as  already  stated 
and  passed  her  young  ladyhood  at  the  parental  home  in 
Houston,  Texas. 

She  was  married  at  Christ  Church  (Episcopal),  Hous- 
ton, Texas,  on  April  22.,  1908,  to  Joseph  Carroll  Vinson, 
born  April  28,  1878,  son  of  Baldridge  Tyler  and  Alice 
(Baldridge)  Vinson,  of  an  old  and  honored  Southern 
family.  At  the  wedding,  which  may  be  numbered  among 
the  most  brilliant  in  the  South,  the  Rt.  Rev.  George  H.  Kin- 
solving,  Bishop  of  Texas,  and  the  local  rector,  the  Rev. 
Peter  Gray  Sears,  and  the  bride's  uncle,  the  Rev.  Quincy 
Ewing,  of  Louisiana,  officiated. 

After  her  marriage,  she  and  her  husband  lived  in  San 
Francisco,  California,  then  in  Tucson,  Arizona,  and  again 
in  San  Francisco.  Born  of  the  union  were  two  sons,  (i) 
Kittredge  (baptized  Joseph  Kittredge),  born  at  Tucson, 
Arizona,  April  27,  1910,  and  (2)  Presley  Ewing  (first 
called  but  not  baptized  John  Dana),  born  at  San  Francisco, 
California,  November  22,  191 1,  both  vigorous  and  promis- 
ing lads,  and  the  pride,  joy  and  hope  of  the  entire  family. 

Since  October  28,  1914,  Vesta  has  been  single,  living  at 
the  home  of  her  parents,  Houston,  Texas,  with  her  little 
boys,  in  the  midst  of  a  circle  of  admiring  and  warm  friends ; 
she  is  Secretary  of  the  Lady  Washington  Chapter  of  the 
National  Society  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution, 
also  a  member  of  the  Chatauqua,  and  her  papers  before  the 
Houston  Circle  have  attracted  attention  and  elicited  much 
praise  for  their  high  excellence;  she  is  a  voracious  and  re- 
tentive reader,  and  is  often  appealed  to  in  the  family  as 
"The  encyclopedia." 

Joseph  Carroll  Vinson  is  as  before  stated  the  son  of 
Baldridge  Tyler  Vinson,  born  December  6,  1842,  near 
Franklin,  Louisiana,  died  November  26,  1918,  and 
his     wife,     Alice     Baldridge,     born     April   2.2^,      1848,   at 

(179) 


180  The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches 

Franklin,  Louisiana,  died  September  15,  1919;  they 
were  cousins,  married  July  19,  1876.  Alice  Baldridge 
was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  Hodges  Baldridge,  born 
August  20,  1824,  died  December  22,  i860,  and  his 
wife,  Sue  Ann  Vaughan,  born  1828,  died  April  15, 
1850  at  Franklin,  Louisiana;  they  were  married 
May  12,  1847.  Joseph  Hodge  Baldridge  was  the  son 
of  J,  W.  Baldridge,  born  May  16,  1798,  died  September 
3,  1876,  and  Sallie  Wells  Hodge,  born  May  20,  1807,  died 
October  17,  1887;  they  were  married  in  Sumner  County, 
Tennessee,  February  2/,  1823.  Sallie  Wells  Hodge  was 
the  daughter  of  Joseph  Hodge,  bom  in  England,  1755,  died 
February  28,  1822,  in  Sumner  County,  Tennessee,  and  his 
wife,  Euphemia  Agnew,  born  about  1765,  died  about  1815; 
they  were  married  in  Guilford  County,  North  Carolina, 
February  20,  1782.  Joseph  Hodge  was  an  emigrant  from 
England,  a  settler  in  North  Carolina,  and  was  a  soldier, 
ranking  major,  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  on  the  side  of 
Independence;  and,  while  under  the  command  of  General 
Nathaniel  Greene,  he  was  severely  wounded  in  the  battle 
of  Guilford  Court  House,  on  March  15,  1781/  For  his 
gallant  services  in  the  cause  of  Independence,  he  received  a 
grant  of  valuable  land  in  Sumner  County,  Tennessee,  where 
he  later  lived  and  died.  He  was  the  son  of  John  Hodge  and 
his  wife,  Agnes  Shaw,  of  England. 


'Juhn    Allan    VVeyeth's    "With   Sabre   and    Scalpel,"    page   531. 


CH     XXV 


GLADYS  (EWING)  COMBES 


CHAPTER  XXV. 

GLADYS    (EWING)    COMBES,  DAUGHTER  OF  PRESLEY   KITTREDGE 

AND  MARY  EI.LEN    ( WILLIAMS)    EWING:    HER   LIFE 

AND   MARRIAGE. 

GLADYS    EWING 

daughter  of  Presley  K.  Ewing  and  Mary  Ellen  Williams 
(q.  v.),  was  born  in  Houston,  Texas,  April  17,  1893;  ^'^^ 
her  elder  sister,  she  was  educated  in  the  Houston  High 
School,  and  the  Finch  School  (post  graduate)  of  New 
York,  and  passed  her  young  ladyhood  at  the  parental  home 
in  Houston.  She  had  a  leading  part  in  the  Carnival  at 
Houston  the  year  she  made  her  debut,  and  was  Maid  of 
Honor  the  following  winter  to  the  Queen  of  the  Rex  Car- 
nical,  New  Orleans,  Louisiana.  She  was  also  a  brilliant 
figure  in  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  society  during 
the  winter  of  1915-1916.  Though  thus  prominent  in  social 
life,  she  was  never  exclusively  devoted  to  its  behests,  but 
was  much  identified  with  church  and  charity  work,  and  at 
all  times  both  earnest  in  endeavor  and  faithful  in  service. 

She  married  at  the  family  home  in  Houston,  Texas,  April 
25,  191 7,  Abbott  Carson  Combes,  junior,  B.  S.  and  M.  D., 
of  Elmhurst,  Long  Island,  New  York.  The  wedding  was 
a  very  brilliant  function,  and  the  clergyman  officiating  was 
her  godfather  vmcle,  the  Rev.  Quincy  Ewing,  of  Louisiana. 

Since  their  marriage,  she  and  her  husband  have  lived  in 
Elmhurst,  New  York,  where  he  is  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession. 

Dr.  Combes  was  a  volunteer  for  service  in  the  war  with 
Germany,  and  was  commissioned  first  lieutenant  of  the 
Medical  Corps,  serving  until  his  honorable  discharge  on 
cessation  of  hostilities. 

Born  of  this  marriage,  a  son,  named  for  his  father,  on 
May  2f,  191 8,  who  passed  away  when  about  a  month  old, 
June  16,  1918,  but  he  lived  not  in  vain,  for  he  left  at  least 
to  his  bereft  parents  the  sacred  memory  of  newly  awakened 
love,  and  the  rekindled  hope  of  blessed  immortality. 

ABBOT    CARSON    COMBES,    JUNIOR 

husband  of  Gladys  Ewing,  was  born  July  4,  1884,  son  of 
Abbott  Carson  Combes,  M.  D.,  and  his  wife,  Marie  Louise 
de  Raismes ;  he  was  graduated  from  Columbia  College,  New 
York,  degree  B.  S.,  and  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and 

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182  The  Ewinq  Genealogy  wpth  Cognate  Branches 

Surgeons,  Medical  Department,  of  Columbia  College,  M. 
D.,  and  promptly  entered  the  practice  of  his  profession.  He 
is  a  Mason,  Royal  Arch,  a  member  of  a  Colonial  War  So- 
ciety and  of  the  medical  fraternity,  Chi-Zeta-Chi. 

The  family  from  which  Dr.  Combes  descends  is  a  dis- 
tinguished one,  and  in  it  men  of  importance  may  be  particu- 
larly noted ;  for  example,  in  the  line  of  ancestry,  we  in- 
stance Thomas  Jones,  a  lieutenant,  John  Seaman  a  captain, 
and  Daniel  Whitehead,  a  major;  Robert  Waterhouse,  Chap- 
lain to  the  King;  William  Pope,  Knight  of  the  Bath,  Baron 
and  Earl;  Sir  Richard  Combes,  knighted  Februaiy  5,  1660; 
Pierre  Charles  de  Raismes,  Counsel  to  the  King  and  Treas- 
urer of  France ;  and  Degory  Priest,  who  came  to  America 
in  the  Mayflower. 

The  emigrant  ancestor  of  the  Combes  family  was  Rich- 
ard, of  Hemel  Hempstead,  England,  and  the  family  were 
settled  at  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  as  early  as  1669.  The 
line  of  descent  is,  Richard,'  John,'  Daniel,'  Nathaniel,* 
Nathaniel,"  Benjamin,"  Clinton,'  Abbott,'  Abbott." 

Nathaniel*  was  a  recognized  patriot  of  the  Revolution, 
who  with  unfailing  loyalty  rendered  material  aid  to  the 
cause  of  Independence. 

Benjamin  of  the  line  is  understood  to  have  fought  in  the 
War  of  1812, 

Dr.  Abbott  C.  Combes,  senior,  formerly  Adjunct  Profes- 
sor of  the  Post-Graduate  Medical  College,  New  York  City, 
a  member  of  the  Founders  and  Patriots  Society,  and  for 
twenty-two  years  of  the  New  York  National  Guards,  and 
Captain  therein,  is  a  prominent  physician  and  citizen  of 
Elmhurst,  Long  Island,  born  July  21,  1858,  at  East  Rock- 
away,  New  York,  married  January  18,  1882,  Marie  Louise 
de  Raismes.  Issue :  Martha  married  James  Robinson ; 
Abbott  Carson,  (q.  v.)  ;  Clinton,  a  lawyer  of  New  York 
City,  in  the  firm  of  which  Elihu  Root  is  head ;  J.  de 
Raismes,  Captain  Medical  Corps,  United  States  Army  in 
France ;  Marie  Louise ;  Rodney,  in  the  Navy,  and  Richard, 
in  the  Army,  of  the  United  States,  in  the  War  with 
Germany. 

Marie  Louise  de  Raismes,  wife  of  Dr.  Abbott  Combes, 
senior,  born  November  2,  1857,  died  October  30,  1912,  was 
of  noted  French  lineage,  traceable  as  far  back  as  the  12th 
Century ;  daughter  of  Jean  Francois  Joseph  de  Raismes, 
born  in  Paris,  France,  1803,  and  Martha  Ella  Holt,  his 
wife.     The   fam.ily   name   is   associated   Avith   the   town   of 


Dr.   ABBOTT  C.  COMBES.  J  R. 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  183 

Raismes,  in  French  Flanders.  A  first  cousin  of  Marie 
Louise  de  Raismes  was  Maria  de  Raismes,  an  author  and 
orator,  and  a  leading  spirit  in  the  Women's  cause  in  France  ; 
except  Joan  d'Arc,  she  is  the  only  woman  whose  statue 
has  been  erected  in  a  public  square  in  Paris. 

Martha  E.  Holt,  the  mother  of  Marie  Louise  de  Raismes, 
was  a  descendant  of  Nicholas  Holt  who  came  to  America 
in  1636,  and  a  granddaughter  of  William  Chaffee,  who 
fought  in  the  Revolution,  taking  part  in  the  important  battle 
of  Stony  Point. 

Another  ancestor,  Samuel  Manning,  was  an  ensign  in 
the  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  Militia,  and  under  him  the 
family  is  eligible  to  membership  in  the  societies  based  on 
service  in  the  Colonial  Wars. 


CHAPTER  XXVI. 

CONCLUSION 

There  are  probably  a  few  in  every  family  who  are  ready 
to  debase  brains  as  a  means  of  exalting  brawn — to  these, 
groping  in  the  lower  levels,  there  will  be  no  vision  for  this 
book. 

There  are  others,  however,  who  see  in  the  world's  ad- 
vancement and  greatness  the  accomplishments  of  both  body 
and  mind,  working  together,  but  with  the  latter  the  soar- 
ing quality, — to  those,  and  there  are  many,  we  are  per- 
suaded these  pages  will  be  read  not  without  pleasure,  aye, 
even  largely  as  an  incentive,  and  in  some  respects  as  an 
inspiration. 

The  benefits  likely  to  follow  from  a  record  of  family 
achievements,  if  worthy,  are  believed  to  be  sufficient  to 
justify  the  labor  and  cost  of  preparation. 

We  are  inclined  to  largely  agree  with  Edmund  Burke, 
that— 

"Example  is  the  school  of  mankind,  and  they  will  learn 
at  no  other.'" 

We  do  entirely  agree  with  Edward  Everett,  where  he 
said  in  his  famous  speech  of  July  5,  1858:' 

"The  character,  the  counsels,  and  example  of  a  great 
man  *  *  *  may  guide  us  through  the  doubts  and  difficulties 
that  beset  us;  they  may  guide  our  children  and  our  chil- 
dren's children  in  the  paths  of  prosperity  and  peace,  while 
America  shall  hold  her  place  in  the  family  of  nations." 

To  the  scoffer  at  family  history,  we  commend  a  perusal 
of  thoughts  to  follow,  from  great  men. 

John  Ouincy  Adams,  in  his  speech  at  Plymouth,  Decem- 
ber 22,  1802,  said: 

"Think  of  your  forefathers !     Think  of  your  posterity !" 

If  we  may  be  pardoned  another  quotation  from  Edmund 
Burke,  it  was  he  who  observed :' 

"People  will  not  look  forward  to  posterity  who  never 
look  backward  to  their  ancestors." 

No  undue  claim  has  here  been  made  for  ancestry,  as  the 
preface  indicates;  indeed,  the  authors  cheerfully  concede, 

'On  a  Regicide  Peace,  Vol.  V,  p.  331. 
^"Washington  Abroad  and  at  Home." 
'Reflections   on    the    Revolution    in    France,   Vol.    Ill,    p.    274. 

(184) 


The  Grandsons 
KITTREDGE  AND  PRESLEY  EWING 


The  Ewing  Genealogy  with  Cognate  Branches  185 

as  they  themselves  think,  that  family  alone  never  made  a 
man  truly  great,  and  that  "thought  and  deed,  not  pedigree, 
are  the  passports  to  enduring  fate."  They  also  recognize, 
with  Seneca,'  that  "he  who  boasts  of  his  descent,  praises 
the  deeds  of  another." 

But,  at  the  same  time,  these  observations  are  only  part 
of  the  truth,  and  standing  alone  are  "lights  that  do  mislead." 
What  Sallust''  says,  is  equally  true  : 

"The  glory  of  ancestors  sheds  a  light  around  posterity; 
it  allows  neither  their  good  or  bad  qualities  to  remain  in 
obscurity." 

A  striking  thought  on  the  subject  is  that  of  Goethe  in 
Faust :' 

"What  dazzles,  for  the  moment  spends  its  spirit ; 
W^hat's  genuine,  shall  posterity  inherit." 

While  we  have  already  sufficiently  expressed  our  own 
view,  we  may  in  emphasis  of  it  adopt  the  following  from 
Whately's  Annot.  on  Bacon's  Essay  of  Nobility : 

"Bishop  Warburton  is  reported  to  have  said  that  high 
birth  was  a  thing  which  he  never  knew  any  one  disparage 
except  those  who  had  it  not,  and  he  never  knew  anyone 
make  a  boast  of  it  who  had  anything  else  to  be  proud  of." 


Dear  reader,  the  point  of  parting  has  been  reached.  We 
have  wandered  together  in  groves  of  sacred  memories,  to 
be  treasured ;  we  have  stood  with  honored  ancestors  on 
cliffs  of  immortal  fame,  but  at  every  pause  we  have  been 
reminded,  have  we  not,  of  the  common  end  of  all.  For  us, 
the  sun  will  soon  be  setting,  with  darkness  closing  in  our 
departure,  but  let  us  hope  it  may  rise,  and  continue  to  rise, 
with  the  effulgence  of  a  radiant  morning,  upon  generations 
yet  unborn,  wearing  worthily  the  name  we  bear. 


FINIS 


■Hercules   Furens.   CCCXL. 

'Jugurtha  LXXXV. 

'Vorspiel    auf   dcni    Theater,    L. 


INDEX 


INDEX 


A. 

Page 

"Across  the  Fields  of  Yesterday"   4 

Adair,  Mary     50 

Priscilla      50 

"       Weyman     50 

"       William  de  Berry 50 

"       Zadock    50 

Adams,  John  Quincy    184 

Agnew,  Euphemia 180 

Alexander,  Laura  Lavinia   141 

Allen,  Elizabeth  Ann   70 

"       Dr.  Thomas    70 

Alsace  and  Lorraine 168 

Anderson,  George  Burwin 49 

Ariel,  the  Home  of  Dr.  Fayette  Clay  Ewing 10 

Arnold,   L 57 

Avery,  Susan  C 3^ 


Baird,  Sarah  Jane  (McLean)   87 

Baker,    Alice  Jeanette    141 

Rev.  Caleb    40 

Edward  Oates    141 

Eliza    141 

Eliza  Ann   141 

Everard   Green    141 

Fred  Nash    141 

John  F 141 

Joseph  K 126 

Laura  Lavinia    141 

Lizzie  Antonia    141 

Martha  Gordon   141 

Mary     43 

Mary  Edith    141 

Mary    Louise    126 

Nellie    141 

N.  Quintard    141 

Ralph  D 126 

Robert  L 126,   141 

Thomas     141 

Thomas  Francis 141 


Page 

Baker,  Walter  Kirkland   141 

"         William  C 141 

Baldridge,  Alice     179 

Joseph  Hodge    180 

J.  W 180 

Baldwin,  John    115 

Ballantine,   Lizzie    69 

Barbour,   Frances    38 

Barrett,   Charles   G 50 

Barron,  Mary  Pettis 61 

Barstow,  Margaret  170 

Bartlett,  Aubrey    123 

Barton,  Arvon  Allen 130 

Ashton  C 1 30 

Bonnie   Carrie    129 

"       Carrie  K 130 

*'       Carroll     130 

"       Clara  Smith   130 

"       Clarence   C 124 

Clifton  Ivy    130 

"       Elijah  Donald    129 

Ethel  May   131 

■'       Frank  Kittredge 130 

"       Herbert  William  130,  131 

"       Lavinia      129 

Mabel  Lee    131 

Maud  Ethel   130 

Maude  Marion  131 

Norwood  P 131 

Robert  Ruffin    129 

Sallie     130 

"       Samuel  K 130 

Walter  Irving    121 

Battle  of  the  Boyne   4 

Battle  of  Cowan's  Ford  58 

Battle  of  King's  Mountain 85 

Bearce,  Clarence  P 112 

Beard,   Nancy    40 

Beard,  Richard  25 

Beauchamp,  Anna      yj 

"  Edwin  E yy 

"  Elizabeth     yy 

"  Francis  Marion   76 


INDEX  III. 

Page 

Beauchamp,  Presley    yy 

Robert  B yy 

"  Sarah  Ann   75 

"  Thomas  J 76 

"  Victoria  E 76 

Beckwith,   Jason    no 

Bell,  Elizabeth  Allen    47 

Bennett,  Alice    45 

Eliza      46 

Bentley,  Granville  D 129 

Berry,  Caroline   S 60 

Col.  Elisha   60 

Berthold,   Bartholomew    15 

Claire     H,   15 

Pelagie  C 15 

Billerica,   Mass 108 

Billups,  John  A 29 

Black,     Barbara    123 

Charles   W'illard    123 

Virginia  Louise 123 

Blaine,  Col.  Ephraim   13 

Ephraim  II 13 

"       James     13 

"      James   G 13 

"       Maria  Gillespie    13 

Blair,  Eliza  Jane   28 

Blakey,  George  Thomas 56 

Blanchard,  John    115 

Blaque,  Joseph   145 

Bohannon,  Charles    59 

Bond,  Lydia  Newton no,  1 11 

Bonner,  Edna  (Ewing)    7 

John     7 

Bowling,  Annie  B 82 

Elizabeth     81 

Ella    81 

George  S 82 

"         Henry  Gilson   82 

Dr.  James  B 81 

James   R 81 

James   M 82 

Lula       82 

Mary  Helen 82 


IV. 


Page 

Bowling,  Robert  Chatham 8i 

William  E 82 

"        Temple      81 

Bowman,  Charles  E 61 

Bowmar,  Joseph  138 

Boyd,  Abraham      45 

Alfred  45 

John   45 

Linn    45 

Martha    45 

Rufus   46 

Boyle,  Maria   5 

Bracey,  William  M 143 

Brank,  Ephraim    86 

Houston      86 

•'       Robert    86 

Breading,  Anne  (Ewing)    11 

"  Anne      11 

"  Caroline  Margaret   12 

"         David     II 

"  Elizabeth     12 

"  George     12 

"  Harriet     12 

"         James     11 

"  James  Ewing 12 

Mary   11 

Mary  Ann   12 

Nathaniel     11,  12 

Rachel    11 

Sarah   11,   12 

William      12 

Breathitt,  Caldwell 56 

"  Governor  John   56 

"  Lucille  56 

Breazeale,  Captain  Hopkins  Payne  128 

Breckenridge,  Clifton  R 139 

"  James  C 139 

"  General  John  C 139 

Mary  Carson   139 

"  Susanna  Preston  Lees   139 

Brevard,  Adam     89 

"         Alexander     89 

"         Benjamin   89 


Page 

Brevard,  Ephraim    89 

"         Family,   The    89 

Hugh     89 

Jane     89 

John    89 

"         Joseph     89 

Mary   59,  89 

"         Nancy     89 

"         Nancy  Young    16 

Rebecca    89 

Robert      89 

Brown,  Anne    116,   117 

"        James    47 

"       John  T 39 

"        Nehemiah     117 

Bryan,  Elizabeth      38 

"       Lavinia      38 

Buckingham,  Hester  (Hosmer)    145 

"  Temperance    145 

"  Rev.  Thomas  145 

Bugg,  Lady    82 

Burden,  John  E 63 

Burgess,   George    121 

Burke  County,  North  Carolina 85 

Burke,  Edmund 184 

Burns,  Nannie   76 

Burr,   Emma    34 

Bush,   Gretchen    176 

"       Lieutenant   Harry    176 

"       Henry   Garland    i/S 

"       John  Garland   1 76 

"       J.  W 32 

Phillis  Gresham  176 

Ruby  Bethea    176 

Butler,  Jane 49 


Cabell,  Jane  Browder   73 

Mildred  M I34 

Caffrey,  Eliza   140 

Cameron,   D 27 

Camp,   Amelia    165 

Campbell,  Aaron    57 


Page 

Campbell,  Elizabeth 44,  56,  57 

"         Jane  C 32 

Joshua     55 

"         Margaret    31 

Moses   56 

"         Penelope  K 82 

Campbells,  The  3,  84 

Canada,  Lucius  T.  M 130 

"         Barton  Kittredge   130 

Cannon,  William  P 22 

Carlisle,  James  M 49 

Carr,  Bettie    83 

Carson,  Catherine    139 

"       Edward  Lees    138 

"       James  Green    138 

"        Colonel  Joseph    138 

Joseph     138 

William  Waller 138 

Cary,  Lieutenant  Edward  Austin 102 

"      Fairfax     99 

Castleman,  Andrew     25 

"  Cinthia    25 

Robert     25 

Catron,  James  H 62 

Chadwick,  W.  F 70 

Chaffee,  Abigail  170 

William    183 

Chapman,   Sarah    145 

Chappell,   Mattie    ']2,   73 

Charles  1 84 

Cheatam,  Abbey    133 

"  Edward     133 

James    133 

"  Leonard     133 

Chew,   Helen    56 

Clan    MacDonald    84 

MacGilleain    84 

"      MacLean    84 

Clarke,  General  Elisha   149 

"       General  George  Rodgers   149 

Clay,  Amy    133 

"      Brutus  Junius   134 

"      Cassius  M 134 


Page 

Clay,  Charles    133 

"      Henry     133,   134 

General  Green     134 

Clayton,  John  D 69 

Cockrell,  Allen  Vardaman    71 

Anna  Ewing    ^2. 

"         Ephraim  Brevard  71 

"         Ewing      71 

Francis    Marion    71 

Harriet      33 

"         Marion      71 

Cole,   Granville   M 60 

Combes,  Dr.  Abbott  Carson,  junior 181,  182 

Dr.  Abbott  Carson   181,  182 

"         Benjamin     182 

Clinton     182 

Daniel     182 

'■  Gladys  (Ewing),  Daughter  of  Presley  Kitt- 
redge  and  Mary  Ellen  (Williams)  Ewing: 
Her  Life  and  Marriage,  Chapter  XXV.  181-183 

Captain  J.  de  Raismes   182 

John     182 

Marie  Louise    182 

Martha    182 

Nathaniel     182 

Richard,  The  Emigrant   182 

Sir  Richard   182 

Richard  (U.  S.  A.)   182 

Rodney  (U.  S.  N.)    182 

Conclusion,  Chapter  XXVI 184 

Condon,   Mary    132 

Conner,  Colonel   39 

Conwell,  Mary   12 

Coromilas,  Lambros  A 72 

Corum,  Lucretia  Perry 53 

William      59 

Counts  de  la  Field   168 

Courreges,  Ernestine    129 

Cox,  Phebe   40 

"     William     50 

Crawford,  Louise  W 126 

Mary   Delia    126 

William  B 126 

William  M 126 


Page 

Cromwell,  Oliver,  alias  Williams  164 

Lord  Thomas  164 

Crosby,  Lucy    no,    113 

Timothy      no 

Cross,  Benjamin  F 175 

"       Eudora  Elizabeth   165,  175 

Crownover,  Arthur     129 

"  Emma    129 

"  Margaret   Heloise    129 

"  Robert  Nicholls  Sims   129 

Curry,  Rebecca    47 

D. 

Dabney,  Ewing   98 

"         Thomas   Ewing    98 

Dr.  Thomas  Smith 97,  98 

Dale,  Michael  Gundaker 60 

Dalferes,  Juanita    127 

Danforth,   Joseph    115 

Darden.  William   175 

Daugherty,   Eleanor    5 

Davidson,  Colonel  Allen  Turner   90 

Elizabeth      85,  88 

"  Ephraim    89 

"  Ephraim  B 51 

Davidson  Family,  The   88 

Davidson,  George    88 

"  Jane  140 

John  85,  88,  89,  135 

Major  John 88,  89 

Margaret 44,  58 

Robert    88 

"  Robert  Vance  90 

Sallie    89 

Theo.  E 90 

Wilbur  S 90 

Colonel  William 88,  89,  90 

General  William  Lee 58,  86,  88,  89 

William   Mitchell    89,  90 

Davis,  Abigail      172 

Allen    24 

"       Ewing    24 

"       James    24 


Page 

Davis,  John 24 

"       Margaret    24 

Martha    24 

Mattie  69 

Sallie     20 

Dawson,   Samuel    133 

DeBerry,  Delthia  Staunton 50 

De  Gravelle,  Marie   126 

Del.  Tate,  Drusilla 39 

De  Raismes,  Jean  Francois  Joseph 182 

Maria     182 

"         "         Marie  Louise    181 

"         "         Pierre  Charles    182 

Devier,  Hugh 18 

De  ^Volf,  Phoebe 145 

Dexter,  John    1 70 

Dickson,  Deborah    6 

Rosa   Lee    124 

Dissenters,   The    4 

Donley,    Margaret    23 

Douglass,  Lemira    31 

Dunaway,  James  G 27 

Dunlap,  Louise   G 47 

"         Mary  Eliza 47 

Dunn,    Kyrum    55 

Durley,  Samuel    47 

Dwight,  Edmund  Parsons   120 

E. 

Eakin,  Emma   32 

Emmet     35 

Spencer    36 

Thomas    32 

William  S 32 

Eaton,  Corporal  Ebenezer 116,   117 

Eliphalit    117 

Elizabeth    no,    116,    117 

Calvin   117 

John    117 

Josiah    117 

Hannah    (Fowler)    117 

Elm  Hall,  the  home  of  Dr.  Ebenezer  Eaton  Kittredge.  .131 


Page 

Emerson,   Comfort    117 

Emigrant  Charles  Ewing   7 

Finley  Ewing    5 

"         James  Ewin    6 

"          Robert  Ewing   7 

"          Nathaniel  Ewing   6 

"          Thomas  Ewing   5 

"          William  Ewing 7 

Eugenius     3 

Evan    3 

Ewen   3 

Ewin    3 

Ewin,  James,  Emigrant   6 

James  L 6 

Mary    6 

"       William    6 

Ewing  Coat  of  Arms   2 

Ewings  in  America,  Different  Branches  of  the, 

Chapter  II 5 

Ewings,  Origin  and  Early  History  of  the.  Chapter  1..  .  .  3 

(A) 

Ewing,  Abbie  Jane 16 

Adeline    48 

Adlai    Merriman    16 

Adlai  Osborne   15 

Albert   Barron    62 

Alberta    32 ' 

Albert  G 32,  33 

Aletha  Jane 57,  69 

Aletha  Olivia  69 

Alexander  11 

Alice  Brevard    72 

Alice  Caroline .  60 

Alice  Sweet   16 

Amanda   F 53 

Amelia 28 

Ann    38 

Anna   69,  71 

Anne 7>  1 1 

Ann  Eliza   27 

Ann  Emily 15 

Anne  Eliza    39 


INDEX  XI. 

Page 

Ewing,  Andrew 1 8,  24,  35,  36 

Andrew,  Son  of  the  Emigrant  William  Ewing: 
His  Career  and  Descendants,  Chapter  VI...   25 

Andrew    B 25 

Andrew  J 2"] 

Araminta    55 

Arnold  Thomas    64 

Auguste  Berthold 15 

(B) 

Ewing,   Baker 44,  48,  51 

Baker  W 53 

Bartus   (Robert)    51 

Baxter  McGee    64 

Benjamin  B 38 

Betsy   40 

Betty   G 62 

Betty  R 64 

Betty  (Martha)   45 

Bryan  . 38 

Butler       47 

(C) 

Ewing,  Caleb     40 

Calvin    57 

Caroline    Sidney    14 

Carrie  A 69 

Carrie   Summerville    38 

Caruthers     19 

Charles    23,  40,  69 

Charles,  Emigrant   7 

Charles,    The    Emigrant :     His    Birth,    Career, 

Marriage  and  Children,  Chapter  VHI 40 

Captain  Charles   4,  5 

General  Charles   5 

Charles  Edgar   60 

Charles  Lee 57,  62 

Charles   R 57 

Chatham 44,  51,  56 

Chatham  S 57,  65 

Chatham  Tomlinson 81 

Clara  Louise 15 

Clarence  0 70 

Clay     73 


Page 

Ewing,  Cyrus    38 

"       Cyrus  G 2.'j 

(D) 

Ewing,  Daniel   B 38 

David     40 

Donald  MacDonald  loi 

Dorothy     73 

"       Dovey  Bryan    64 

(E) 

Ewing,  Edwin  H 32,  34 

Elijah  Finis    60 

"       Eliza     13 

"       Eliza  Ann 17 

Eliza  Josephine   (Kittredge)    103 

Eliza  M 2.-] 

Elizabeth   18,  37,  38,  39,  56 

Elizabeth  A 39 

"       Elizabeth  B 38 

Elizabeth  Davidson   75 

Ella  Harris    70 

"       Ellen    13,  50 

"       Ellen  B 5 

Elliot  Winchester 16 

"       Emily  Kennedy   15 

"       Emma      69 

Emma  Pike    9 

Enid     102 

"       Ephemia      23 

"       Ephraim    47,  80 

"       Ephraim  Brevard  (Barnett)    70 

"       Ephraim  MacDonald 100,  124 

Ephraim  McLean,  Son  of  Robert  and  Jane 
(McLean)     Ewing:       His     Achievements, 

Marriage  and  Children,  Chapter  XV 79,  91 

"       Ernest   L 15 

'        Eugene   M 64 

Evaline  J 55 

(F) 

Ewing,  Fayette  Clay   92,  93,  99 

Dr.  Fayette  Clay,  Son  of  Ephraim  McLean  and 
Jane  (Mclntyre)  Ewing:  His  Career, 
Marriage  and  Descendants,  Chap.  XVI 95 


Page 

Ewing,  Dr.  Fayette  Clay  II 98,  99 

Felix  Grundy   i9>  27 

Finette     69 

Finette  W 7° 

Finis    44,  63 

Finis,    Youngest    Son    of    Robert    and    Mary 
Baker      Ewing,      and      His      Descendants, 

Chapter  XII 58 

"       Finis  V 53 

"       Finis  W 57 

Finis  Young 69 

Finley,  Emigrant   5 

"       Florence      35 

Frederick  Berthold    15 

(G) 

Ewing,  George 5,  11,  12,  15,  17,  40,  47 

George  N.  E 55 

George  W 13.  38 

George   Washington    83 

Gilson      80 

Gilson  Payne    82 

Gladys   159,  161,  181,  183 

(H) 

-wing,   Hannah    39,   80 

Harriet     14 

Henrietta     38 

Henry 18,  20,  23,  24,  31,  32,  34 

Henry,  Son  of  Emigrant  William  Ewing:    His 

Career  and  Descendants,  Chapter  V 20 

Henry  A 16 

Henry   B 64 

Henry  Clay 79>  83 

Henry  Clayton 20 

"       Henry   Quincy    92,   93 

Henry  Wallis   16 

Henry  Watkins   '/2,  73 

"       Hill    31 

General  Hugh    5 

Hugh  Boyle 5,9 

Hugh  McGavock   26 

Hynes      36 


XIV.  INDEX 

(I) 

Page 

Ewing,  Ida  M 64 

Ida  May   97,  98 

"       Isadora  Windsor 63 

(J) 

Ewing,  Jack  73 

James 7,  11,  13,  15,  24,  38 

James,  Emigrant  6,  11 

James  Caruthers  Rea 9 

James  Stevenson 9,  16 

James  Thompson 60 

James  Urban   52 

James  W 56 

Jane 32,  44,  45,  50 

Jane  Butler 50 

Jane  C 35,  57 

Jane  Howard   82 

Jane  J 55 

Jane    (McLean)    82 

Jarvis  H 53 

Jeannie  Pendleton  38 

Jennetta     24 

Jennetta  H 22 

Jesse    38,  39 

Jesse  H 27 

Jessie   Aline    loi 

Jessie   Marion    60 

Job    53 

John II,  18,  20,  23,  24,  36,  43,  47,  48,  51 

John,   Son  of   the    Emigrant   William   Ewing : 

His  Marriage  and  Descendants,  Chapter  VII.  38 
John,    Baker,    Urban,    Reuben    and    Chatham, 
Sons  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker)   Ewing, 

and  their  Descendants,  Chapter  XI 51 

John  Anna   83 

John  B.  S 47 

John  D.  .  . . 39,  57 

John   Gillespie    9 

John  H 12,   20 

John  Overton 31 

John  W 16 

Joseph     38 

Joseph  Love  2y 


Page 

Ewing,  Joshua    7 

Josiah  W 34 

Josie  Vesta 159,  160,  179,  180 

(K) 

Ewing,  Kate  Adelaid 102,  103 

Katherine    69 

Katherine  A.  K.  M 48 

Kitty      II 

(L) 

Ewing,  Lawrence  B 16 

Lee  Davidson  64,  69,  70 

Leila  Wills   96 

Lemira     3^ 

Lucinda    G 21 

Lucius  Winchester    16 

Lucy  Barbour   38 

L.  Jane   53 

(N) 

Ewing,  Nathan   31-36 

Nathaniel,  Emigrant   6,  8,  11 

Nathaniel,  The  Emigrant :  His  Birth,  Marriage, 

Career  and  Descendants,  Chapter  III 11 

Nathaniel  Ewing 7,  13,  15,  I7 

Nathaniel  P I5 

Nancy     18 

Nancy  B 38 

Nancy  J 16 

Nancy  M 50 

Nancy  W 55 

Nellie      49 

Nellie  Caldwell    53 

Nellie  W 57 

Norma  D 70 

(O) 

Ewing,  Orville 32,  34-  35 

(P) 

Ewing,   Pamela  Jane    68 

Pamela  Margaret   62 


Page 

Ewing,  Pamela   S 53 

Patsy  Mills   80 

Peggy      II 

Pelagie   Isabel    15 

"       Phebe  A 38 

Phebe  Jane    39 

Philander       39 

Philemon  Beecher 5 

Piety  Fort   63 

Polly 40,  45.  47,  5^,  64 

"       Polly  Baker   48,  51,  55,  80 

"       Polly   (Patty)    48 

(M) 

Ewing,  Maggie     37 

Margaret 11,  25,  32 

Margaret  A 2y 

"       Margaret  Davidson    65 

Margaret  Mildred    60 

Margaret  R 53,  73 

Margaretta  W 32 

Maria   5,  79 

Maria  F 64 

Martha   40,  43,  45,  46 

Mary 12,  13,  38,  40,  52,  56,  57.  73 

"       Mary  A 57.  64,  65,  70 

Mary  (Baker)    44 

"       Mary  Barron  63 

Mary  E 22,  38 

Mary  Ellen   (Williams)    159,   161,   164 

Mary  Henrietta   69 

Mary  J 27,  53 

Mary  L.  M 48 

Mary  M 53 

Mary    (Polly)    44 

Medora     62 

Milbrey    36 

Mildred     49 

Milton      55 

Milton  P 27 

"       Minnie   R 70 

"       Missouri    79 

Mitchell     40 


Page 
Ewing,  Presley    Kittredge,    Son   of   Fayette   Clay   and 
Eliza  Josephine    (Kittredge)    Ewing:     His 
Career,    Marriage    and    Children,    Chapter 

XXII 98,  155-  163 

Presley  Kittredge  II 100,  124 

Presley  Underwood    9^ 

(Q) 

Ewing,  Rev.  Quincy    loi,    102 

Quincy,  junior 102 

(R) 

Ewing,  Rachael    n.   I3 

Randall   Milton    26 

"       Rebecca     3^ 

"       Rebecca  D 38 

"       Reuben  44,  5^>  5^ 

Reuben  A 53 

"       Robert 9»  36,  37,  40,  43,  5h  57,  79 

Robert,   Emigrant    7 

Robert,    The    Emigrant:     His    Birth,    Career, 

Marriage  and  Children,  Chapter  IX 42 

Robert  II.,  Son  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Baker) 
Ewing:     His  Birth,  Career,  Marriage  and 

Children,  Chapter  XIII 74 

Robert  Allen 48,  79 

Robert  Chatham  Donnell    70 

"       Robert  C.    57 

Robert  Finis 7° 

Robert   ( ludge)    19 

Robert   Mills 48 

Robert  Morrow   53 

Roberta  M 70 

"       Rowena     3^ 

Rowena  W 33 

"       Ruth      38 

Ruth   Stevenson    17 

(S) 

Ewing,  Sallie  Moore   49 

"       Sally   24,  47 

"       Sally  A 52,  53 


Page 

Ewing,  Samuel    7,  40 

Sarah 1 1,  13,  14,  32 

"       Sarah  Catherine 17 

"       Sidney 51 

"       Sidney  Ann 43>  45 

"  Sidney  Ann,  Martha  (Betty),  Polly  and  Jane 
Ewing,  Daughters  of  Robert  and  Mary 
Baker     Ewing,     and     Their     Descendants, 

Chapter  X 45 

"       Sidney  R 55 

Sophronia   38,  81 

"       Susan  Jane 61 

Susan  Mary    2^ 

"       Susannah  Shannon   27 

(T) 

Ewing,  Theodore  Thompson   63 

Theresa  Green 23 

"       Thomas   5,  9,  37 

Thomas,   Emigrant    6 

Thomas  J 6 

Thomas  (U.  S.  Senator)   5 

"       Thompson  McGready   61,  62,  64 

(U) 

Ewing,  Urban 44,  51,  52 

Dr.  Urban  Epinetus 48,  49 

Urban  J.  D 49 

(W) 

Ewing,  Washington  Perry   57,  69,  70 

Watts     24 

"       Watts  Davis 22,  23 

"       William 6,  7,  11,  25,  37,  38,  40,  41,  57 

William  Caldwell   53 

William  D 39 

"       William,   Emigrant    7 

"       William,  Emigrant :    His  Birth,   Children  and 

Family  Distinction,  Chapter  IV 18,  19 

"       William  E 41 

William  Gillespie   16,  38 

William  H 55.  61 

William  Lane 14,  15,  27 

"       William  Lee  Davidson,  Major  and  Senator.  .59,  60 


INDEX  XIX. 

Page 

Ewing,  William  Lee  Davidson 69 

William  Nicholson 38 

William  Porter   12,  39 

William  Young  Conn   52 

Willie  A 57,  62 

Winifred   L 50 

Winifred  Warren   59 

(Y) 
Ewing,  Young 44,  51,  56,  57 


Farrington,  James    14 

Farris,  Captain  George  W 50 

Ferguson,  Patrick    85 

Field  Coat  of  Arms  166 

Field  Tree,  The   166-177 

Field,  Abigail    171 

"       Major  Abner 167,  171,   173 

Abner  Whipple    1 73 

Adalia    175 

"       Amos    I/O 

"       Anthony     1 70 

Daniel    171 

David     171 

"       David  Dudley 166 

Edward   1 74 

Edwin     175 

Eleanor   172 

Eliza   175 

"       Elizabeth 170 

"       Esther    171 

"       Fielding   175 

George    167,    172 

Hannah     171 

Henry  Martyn   166 

Hubertus  de  la    169 

Hudson   175 

Huldah    171 

James     171 

"       Jeremiah     170 

John    167,   168 

"       John,  the  Astronomer 168,  169 


XX.  INDEX 

Page 

Field,  John  Haywood 175 

Joseph  170 

Josephine    175 

Lydia    i73 

Maria    I75 

Martha    170 

Martha  Harris   169 

Mary    170 

Mary  Pierce   I75 

Moses    171 

Nathaniel    170 

Nehemiah 167,  171,  173,  174 

Pardon    171 

Remember   171 

Rhoda    172 

Robert    168 

Robert  Wescott  173 

Roxana    171 

Sarah 171 

Sarah  C i75 

Stephen   170,   173 

Stephen  Johnson    166 

Thomas 167,  169,  170,  171 

Timothy  (Sergeant  Major)   168 

William 167,  168,  169,  170,  173,  174,  175 

Captain  William    167,    171 

Zachariah   166,   168 

Filmer,  Sir  Edward    152 

Major  Henry  132,  152 

Martha    132 

Finlay,  George  Preston 68 

"       Julia  H 68 

"       Quitman    68 

"       Virgilia  Octavia    68 

Fishback,  F.  L 53 

Fisher,  Betty  ( Speer)    28 

"       Francis iii 

Francis  K 1 1 1 

Horace  N in 

John  H Ill 

Fleming,  Mary    15 

Sallie    141 

Fletcher,  Andrew  J 35 


Page 

Foley,  Arthur  Moring    123 

Evelyn  Elodie   123 

"       John  B 123 

John   B.,   junior    123 

Kirkland   Green    123 

Mary  Louise   1 23 

Willard  Jones   123 

Forbes,  Robert  Mitchell   68 

Foree,  Levin  D 48 

Fort,  Mary  D 61 

Susan  J.  Ewing 55 

"      Washington     61 

Fortescue,  Winifred    9^ 

Foster,  Ephraim  H 54 

"       Henry  Rubey   54 

Rachel   (Kittredge)    no 

"       Sally   54 

French,  Hannah   108 

Fuller,  Deborah      115 

"       Lieutenant  Thomas   115 


Gallaudet,  Edson  F 71 

Garnsey,  Amos   116 

Garrett,  Ann  Amelia   29 

Emma  F 29 

"       Rev.  G 28 

Helen  J 29 

Mary  Susan  28 

William  A 29 

Garrigus,  Lewis  C 77 

Gayosa    i47 

Gibbs,  Samuella  50 

Gibson,  Ethel  May  122 

William  Henry    122 

Giddings,  Earle no 

Job     no 

Gilbert,  Elizabeth     77 

Martha  77 

"       P.  0 77 

"       Presley   77 

Gillespie  Family    7 

Gillespie,  Niel 5 


Page 

Gillis,  Aline      lOi 

"       Charles   E lOi 

"       Captain  Ewing loi 

"       Gary      loi 

Wallace     loi 

Girard,  Marie 124 

Glass,  Dr.  Robert   ^^ 

Cleaves,  Harvey   57 

Goethe    185 

Goodrich,    Ruth    16 

Gordon,  Carolyn  Barton    130 

Charles  Manship    130 

George  Haines   45 

Lucy    55 

Gorman,  Benjamin    171 

"       Captain  John   171 

Green  Tree,  The:     Maternal   Lineage  of  Eliza  Jose- 
phine Kittredge,  Wife  of  Dr.  Fayette  Clay  Ewing, 

Chapter  XIX 132 

Green   Tree,    The,    continued :      Everard    Green,    His 

Career,  Marriage  and  Descendants,  Chapter  XX..  . .  141 
Green  Tree,  The,  concluded :     The  Family  Achieve- 
ments and  Distinction,  Chapter  XXI 147 

Green,  Abner  137,   149 

Abner  Everard    143 

Abraham    118,    140 

Colonel   Abram    133 

Abram  Ashbury    140 

Alexander  Rogers   142 

Amy    133 

Ann      133 

Ann  Harwood    140 

Anna      118 

Antonio  Mayson    143 

Augusta       137 

Caroline   C 138 

Caroline  Frances   142 

Cora  Octavia   142 

Edmund     133 

Elias    140,   148 

Eliza  Celeste 138 

Eliza  McKinney 141 

Elizabeth 132,  133,  134,  135 


INDEX  XXIII. 

Page 

Green,  Everard   140.   I44.   MS.   H^ 

Fannie  Adele   I44 

Filmer   i33-   mS 

Filmer  Wills 137.  MO 

Grief      134 

Hannah     133 

Henry    Filmer    134 

Henry  M 140,   148 

Irene      I44 

James    137 

James   Payne    143 

Jane  135 

Jeremiah  118 

John 117-118,  132,  133 

Joseph  Kirkland 134 

Lelia  C 144 

Leminda      136 

Letitia      17 

Louisa   Sparks    142 

Lucy     133 

Lucy   Estelle    143 

Margaret  Louisa    142 

Margaret  Wharton   130 

Marston    134 

Martha    132,   133 

Martha  Wills 119,  120,  134,  135,  139,  140 

Mary ii7-  ^33 

Mary    (Polly)    135 

Mary  A.  M 137 

Matilda  Susan    139 

Obedience      133 

Patty      133 

Phoebe     118 

Rebecca   133,  134,  137 

Robert  A 143 

Sally    133 

Susanna    133 

Thomas,  Emigrant   132,   133 

Thomas  H,  "The  Seagull" 132 

Thomas  IH 133 

Thomas  H 137 

Thomas  Marston   133,   134,   140 

Thomas  Marston,  junior    134 


Page 

Green,  Colonel  Thomas  Marston 147,  148,  149 

Colonel  Thomas  Marston  (junior)    148,  149 

Wharton      130 

William      1 33 

William  Marston 137 

William  Kirkland   143 

Greene,  Mary 171 

Greenfield,  Piety  D 63 

Griffith,  Elizabeth   47 

Grundy,  Felix     19 

Susan      31 

H. 

Haines,  Charles  W 62 

Hall,  Dora 69 

"     Edwin     24 

Hamilton,  H.  J 30 

Martha  T 27 

Hammon,   Deliverance    171 

Hammond,  Mary  (Polly)    53 

Hanson,  Perry  0 17 

Haralson,  E.  M 146 

Haralson,   Louise    (Kirkland)    146 

Harris,  Bettie     70 

"        Maria  L 70 

Rachel    5 

Harrison,  Lucy 46 

Hart,  Mary  Carter  (Bower)  loi,  102 

Hartsfield,  Major  William  27 

Harwood,  Ann 134,  153 

"         Major  Humphrey    153 

"         Captain  Thomas    1 53 

"         Colonel   William    1 54 

Major  William    134,   153 

Haswell,  Tyler  50 

Hayden,  Agnes   47 

Haynes,  Samuel  B 112 

Hickman,  Sarah   25 

Hill,  Elizabeth     20 

"     Jane     107 

"     Sarah     31 

Hinds,  General  Thomas 150 

"       Major  Thomas   136 


Page 

Hodge,  John     i8o 

Major  Joseph,  Emigrant i8o 

"       SalHe  Wells   i8o 

Hodges,  Martha  Sargent  112 

Hogan,   Hazel    71 

Hogshett,  Nancy  (Ewing)   18 

Holmes,  J.   Remsen    137 

Holt,  Martha  Ella   182 

"     Nicholas,  Emigrant   182 

Hopkins.  Abigail     1 70 

John      135 

Hord,  Ada  B 34 

Howard,  Ann    1 52 

"       Catherine     1 52 

"       Lord  Edmund 152 

Thomas,  Earl  of  Surrey 152 

Howell,  Charles  B 135 

Elizabeth  A 90 

Howland,  Desire   171 

Hoyt,  Hattie 36,  37 

Hutchins,  Colonel  Anthony  P 137 

Mary     137 

Hynes,  Margaret 35,  36 

I. 

Isle  of  Bute   4 

Ivy,  Fannie  Mary 124 

J- 
Jackson,  General  Andrew   150 

Sarah  Amelia   (Speer)    28 

James  II,  King  of  England 4 

Jamison,  Lilian  Mary  Louise   124 

Jefferson,  Jennie    79 

Maria    79 

Mary    79 

"         Robert  Randolph  79 

Jefts,  Hannah    114 

Jencks,  Daniel    13 

Jennings,  Evelina  A 51 

Jetter,   Samuel    39 

Johnson,  Judge  John  Warner 123 

Loula  Belle    123 


Page 

Johnson,  Martha  J ^J 

Jones,  Cora  Wills  121 

Elizabeth  Clarendon   121 

Evelyn      123 

Florence  Olivia 124 

Francis      1 34 

George  Washington   120,  121 

George  Willard  124 

Greenup  L 65 

Isabel    123 

Kate  Josephine 122 

Lilian     124 

Nellie  May  123 

Stephen     121 

Thomas     145 

Lieutenant  Thomas 182 

Jordan,  Mary 173 

Judkins,  Florence      76 

Jane     76 

"         John     76 

John  W 76 


Kavanaugh,  Anna     64 

Archibald     64 

"  Baxter    64 

"  Finis    64 

"  Pamela     65 

"  Roberta     70 

Keeling,  Elizabeth  127 

Keen,  Terry 133 

Keller,  Silas  Price 66 

Kelly,  Ann  Elizabeth   125 

Anna  K 30 

"       Mary  Arden   16 

Peter 44,  50 

"     Sarah      50 

Kidder,  Benjamin    115 

Zephaniah    no 

Kirkland,  Ann    145,    146 

Archelaus     135 

Rev.   Daniel    146 

Edwin  Wells   146 


Page 

Kirkland,  Eliza  Lucy    146 

Elizabeth   141,   HS 

"         Hannah     145 

Ida    146 

John     145 

"         John  Hampton    146 

"         John   Thornton    146 

"         Louise    146 

Lydia   145 

Martha    134,    145 

Mary     145 

Matthew    145 

Nathaniel   145 

Parnell    145,   146 

Philip    145 

"  Priscilla     145 

Rosa  Elizabeth   146 

"         Samuel    145 

"         Rev.  Samuel   146 

"         Temperance     146 

"         William  Hinds   146 

Kittredge  Coat  of  Arms 105 

Kittredge  Family,  The 105 

Kittredge  Tree :     Paternal  Lineage  of  Eliza  Josephine 
Kittredge,     Wife    of     Dr.   Fayette     Clay    Ewing, 

Chapter  XVH ." 105 

Kittredge  Tree :     Dr.  Ebenezer  Eaton  Kittredge,  His 

Career,  Marriage  and  Descendants,  Chapter  XVHI   119 

Kittredge,  Abbott  E 105 

Abigail    108,    1 10 

"  Achsa    1 10 

Alfred  B 105 

"  Alice    112 

Amy   no 

"  Ann  Elizabeth  (Kelly)    125 

"  Benoni    108 

Carrie      130 

"  Charmian    107 

"  Cullen  Fordyce 113 

"  Daniel    108 

Dr.  Ebenezer  Eaton 116,  119,  120,  125 

Eliza  Josephine 105,  125,  132 

Elizabeth  (Eaton)   116,  120 


XXVIII.  INDEX 

Page 

Kittredge,  Elizabeth  no 

Emma    127 

Estelle  S 113 

Frances    124 

Francis 108,  109,  1 10,  1 13 

Dr.  Francis   108,  109,  113 

Dr.  Francis  II    no 

Francis   Robert    129 

George  L.yman    106 

George  Watson   106 

Hannah    108 

Henry  Eaton    127 

Henry  Grattan   106,  112 

lola    130 

Isabel    112 

Ivy   1 24 

Jacob    108 

James 108 

Jane    108 

Dr.  Jesseniah  no,  iii 

Dr.  Jesseniah  (junior)    112 

Jessie  Amanda 127 

Joel     .  .  . 113 

John,  Emigrant 107,  108 

Dr.  John  108 

Jonathan    108 

Joseph    108 

Joseph   Kirkland   Green    124 

Josiah    109 

Josiah   Edward    107 

Louise     112 

Lucie  Estelle 129 

Lucy    113 

Lydia   109,  no,  in,  113 

Mabel    Hyde 107 

Martha  Hodges 112 

Mary  Ann    126 

Mary  Louise 120,  121 

Melicent    no 

Mirah   108 

Molly     no 

Oena    130,   131 

Olivia  Amanda   122,  125 


Page 

Kittredge,  Olivia  Corinna    125 

Orville  Milo   124 

Paul  no 

Dr.   Paul    113 

Rachel    no 

Rhoda     1 10 

Roswell    116 

Solomon     109 

Dr.  Stephen  no,  116 

Stephen    116 

Susan    116 

Susanna    no,    113 

Thomas    112 

Thomas  Bond 112 

Walter   106 

William 108 

Willoughby    124 

Dr.  Willoughby  Eaton    124 

Zephaniah    109 

Kline,  Alice 128 


Lane,  Dr.  William  Carr 13 

Law,  Grace  H 13 

"     John    13,  14 

Lay,  Dr.  Joseph  Revis 50 

Lehnhof f,  Louise 30 

Letton,  Reuben 65 

Lewellen,  Thomas 30 

Lewis,  Henry  Martyn 146 

William    Goodwin    146 

Lilly,  Eunice 178 

Link,   Joseph    75 

Linn,  Adam     43 

Nancy     45 

Littlefield,  Francis    107 

Mary 107 

Livingston,  Bertha     142 

Clifton 142 

Frank    142 

"  Guy     142 

Samuel    142 

Wills    142 


Page 

Loch,    Lomond    4 

London,  Jack   107 

Long,  Judge  Alton  79 

' 18 

17 
18 
18 
18 
18 
18 
76 


Longfellow,  Abigail 

Ann    

"  Green    

"  Jonathan   

"  Nathan    117, 

"  Samuel     

"  Sewall    

Loubat,  Marie  Le  Foul   

Love,  Annabella    30 

"      Margaret    25 

Lowestoft,  England 108 

Mc. 

McBeth,  Malcolm  15 

McCaleb,  Emily  H 137 

McCaleb,   Laura    137 

McCausland,  Mary   15 

McClanahan,  Mary 67 

McConnell,  Dr.  James  J 124 

McCormick,  John  E 70 

McCoy,   Dr.   Thomas    137 

McDonald,  Rev.  Philip 80 

Philip   Monroe    80 

McFarland,  Ike  Barton 50 

McGavock,  Eliza    25 

"  Lucinda    25 

"  Mary  Ellen 25 

"  Sarah  E 27 

Mclntyre,  Jane  Pope 92-94 

McKae,  Sallie  D.  Porter 53 

McLean  Tree,  The:    Lineage  of  Jane  McLean,   Wife 

of  Robert  Ewing  II,  Chapter  XIV 84 

McLean,  Alney 86,  87 

Andrew    87 

Andrew  Jackson 56,  86 

Betsy   45 

Celia   87 

Charles 85,  86 

Charles  Grandison   87 

Cynthia    87 


INDEX  XXXI. 

Page 

McLean,  David 87 

"         Edward    87 

Eliza     87 

"         Eliza  Ann  86 

"         Eliza  Hannah   87 

Ephraim 56,  88 

"         Ephraim,  the  Emigrant 85,  86 

"         Dr.  Ephraim 87 

"         Ephraim  Baxter 87 

"         George 86 

George  Davidson   56 

"         James 87 

Jane 84,  86 

John    85,  86 

Logan  Haynes   130 

"         Priscilla    Brank    87 

Robert    87 

Robert  Brank  87 

Robert  Davidson   86 

Samuel   86,  87 

Sarah   Ellen    56 

Sarah  Jane   87 

Susan  Howard  87 

"         Thornton 86 

William 86,  87 

McNeil,  Eaton  Kittredge 127 

Rev.  Edward  Benton    127 

Edward  Benton,  junior    127 

Harry  Pendleton   127 

Lessie  Benning   127 

Mary  Elizabeth   127 

Percy  Rutledge 127 

Robert  Irving   127 

Walter  Anderson    127 

McPherson,    Charles  C 3° 

Harriett  J 3° 

Margaret  R 30 

Robert  J 3° 

Samuel  Speer   3^ 

William 29 

William  G 30 

McQueen,  Caroline    55 

McRorry,  Sarah 27 


Page 

Norsworthy,  Lulu   5^ 

Noyes,  L.  T 146 

Rosa  Elizabeth   (Kirkland)    146 


o. 

O'Brien,  Eliza   28 

Offutt,  Amanda   11 

Oliphant,  William   13 

Osborne,  Colonel  Alex 15 

p. 

Paschal,  Polly  (Ewing)   47 

Payne,  Captain  John    1 73 

Rebecca    171,   i73 

Dr.  Robert    I43 

Peebles,  Rev.  James  A 28 

Pendleton,  John  T 22 

Joseph  H 32 

Perham,  Estelle  S.  (Kittredge)    113 

Walter    113 

Perkins,  Daniel    35 

Margaret    36 

Mary    146 

Samuel  F 23 

Perryman,  Anthony    142 

David    142 

Elizabeth     142 

"  Laura    142 

Martha    142 

Phillippy,  Anna 69 

Pierce,  Frederick  Clifton   173 

"       Mary   (Mills)    178 

Pope,   Miller 71 

William,  Knight  of  the  Bath,  Baron  and  Earl.  .  .182 

Porter,  and  Gillespie  Families   7 

"       Amaziah no 

"       Caroline    80 

"       Ellen   Gillespie    12 

"       James    12 

Mary 12 

Rachel     11 

Potts,  Robert 11 

Pratt,  Lydia     145 


Page 

Pratt,  Lieutenant  William   145 

William    145 

Price,  Jane  T 69 

"       Katherine  Allen    48 

Priest,    Degory    182 

Prosser,   Dorothy    128 

Pruce,  John 38 

Q. 
Ouinn,  Dr.   Irvin    142 

R. 

Race,  Corinna  Elizabeth 125 

"      Fannie  Louise    125 

"      George  Eaton   125 

George  Wesley    125 

Radford,   Georgie    75 

Railey,  H.  Otey   144 

James    139 

Ramsey,  Jane    79 

"         General  Jonathan 79 

Randall,  Jeremiah  171 

Rea.  Carrie 68 

"     Horsely  68 

"     Rev.  Peter   59 

Read,  Ann 52 

Anthony  Foster   53 

"       Anthony  James   55 

"       James  W 68 

"       John     54 

"       Mary   68 

"       Mary  Elizabeth    54 

"       Sally  Foster  54 

"       William  E 55 

Reed,  Frances  Elliot  71 

Reese,  Arthur   Boyd    124 

Emma   Lucile    124 

Reid,  Margaret   96 

Renick,  Elizabeth 57 

Robert  Archie 57 

"       William   H 52 

Rice,  Rev.  Green  P 57 

Mary    47 


Page 

Richard,    Sarah    97 

Richardson,  Abigail   113,  114,  115 

Andrew 114,  115 

"'  EHzabeth  115 

''  £.zekiel   115 

"  Hannah  115 

"  Isaac    115 

Mary    115 

Nathaniel     115 

"  Phoebe     115 

Ruth    115 

Samuel     115 

Thomas    115 

Rivers,  Bessie    Whittington    126 

"       Douglas  Eldridge 126,  127 

"       Enid  Louise   126 

Lena  Marie    127 

Mollie   Kittredge    127 

Robards,  Rachel   1 50 

Robinson,  J.  C 70 

"  James    182 

"  Zeruah     117 

Rodgers,  Jane   20 

Roland,  Micajah , 51 

Rollins,   Mary    ' 47 

Ross,    James    80 

Trippe    80 

Rounds,  George 171 

Rubey,  Francis  M 55 

George  W 55 

Henry  M 59 

Lavinia    55 

Lucinda    55 

Margaret  Jane  59 

Mary  Angeline .    59 

Pamela  McLean 59 

Smith  W 55 

Thomas   55 

Thomas  Lee  59 

Urban  Ewing   55 

Virginia 59 

William  B 55 

William  H 55 


Page 

Russell,  C.  Benjamin 6i 

Robert  87 

s. 

Sanborn,  Abiel    118 

Jabez     118 

Sanders,  Major  Bryant   55 

John  W 55 

Mary  J 55 

Reuben   E 55 

Sidney  C 55 

Sargent,  Hannah 11 

Scott,  Charles  F 16 

Scroggins,  Charles  M 47 

"  George     47 

Martha 47 

Mildred     47 

Sally 47 

"  Thomas    47 

Seaman,  Captain  John 182 

Sebastian,  Benjamin   54 

Nancy .  54 

Sebree,    Georgianna    22 

Sellers,  Margaret 39 

Seneca    185 

Settle,  Hart  H 68 

Shanklin,   Grace 38 

"         Thomas    38 

Shannon,   Susannah     25 

"         Thomas    37 

Shattuck,  Frank  \\' 69 

Shaw,  Agnes    180 

"       Eliza    13 

Sherman,  General  William  T 5 

Shipman,  John   145 

Siege  of  Londonderry 4 

Simmons,    David  Edward   69 

Dr.  William    80 

Sims,  Alice    128 

"     Ann  E 129 

"     Christian   Kline    128 

"     Dr.  Eaton  Kittredge   128 

"     Emm.a     129 


Page 

Sims,  Emma  Kittredge 129 

Ernestine   129 

Francis  Kelly   129 

Dr.  George  William  122,  125 

Grace     129 

Harry  Vernon 129 

Captain  Harry  Vernon 128 

Heloise    129 

Lavinia     1 29 

Marguerite    128 

Mary  Louise 121 

Nita    128 

Robert  Nicholls 127,  128 

Ruffin  Moring 122 

William   121 

William   Nichols    122 

Sittington,  Robert   38 

Sloan,  Alexander  Thompson 67 

Alfred  Baxter   65 

"       Charles  W 68 

"       Ephraim   Perry    68 

"       Ewing  McGready    66 

"       Finis  Ewing 67 

Frances  Kavanaugh 65 

James  Finis 68 

"       Katherine  Winifred 66 

"       Margaret  Pamela 68 

Mary  Phoebe  68 

Rev.'  Robert    65 

"       Robert  Lee  67 

Smith,  Alice    143 

Dr.   Beverly    176 

"       Dr.  Beverly  Chew  176 

Caroline  A 112 

Daisy  Belle 176 

Emma   Tyler    75 

II       Jennie    34 

Pleasant  A 27 

William  C 27 

Snadon,  Lucy  C 82 

Sallie    82 

South  worth,  Lieutenant  Andrew 146 

Samuel    146 


Page 

Sonthvvorth,   Captain  A\^illiam   145 

Speed,  George  Keats 50 

Speer,  Abigail    29 

"       Andrew  Evving    28 

Bettie  28 

"       Edward  Young 28 

"       George     28 

"       James  Green  Hill    28 

Jesse  Lee 28 

John   Ewing    28 

John  Fletcher 29 

John    Moses    28 

Margaret  C 31 

Mary  W 28 

Moses    28 

"       Moses  G 28 

Nathan  Ewing   28 

Samuel  W .   29 

Sarah  Amelia 28 

Susan     28 

"       Susan  S 29 

"       Thomas  Hickman   28 

Spencer,  Barksdale     80 

Catherine     16 

"         Ephraim  Ewing   80 

James  B 80 

John    80 

Martha  G 80 

"         Mary  Jane 80 

Randolph     80 

Robert    80 

Splane,  DoUie  Belle   126 

Stapp,  Amanda  S 52 

Steele,  Colonel  Clement  F 5 

Stephens,  John  H 53 

Stevenson,  Adlai  Ewing   17 

"  Fielding  Alexander    17 

James 16 

"  James  B 17,  32 

"  John  Calvin    17 

John  Turner 17 

"  Julia   Scott    17 

Letitia  Ewing 17 


Page 

Stevenson,  Lewis  Green 17 

Maria  McClelland    16 

Mary  Eliza   17 

"  Sophia  Elizabeth    17 

"  Thomas  \V 17 

Stimpson,  Mary   115 

Stirling  Castle 4,  6 

Stone,  May  Bellows 112 

Hannah    171 

Jane    171 

Stroup,  Alex.  R 17 

Sturgess,  Anne 39 

Sugg,   Sallie    82 

Sullivan,  Charles  W 64 

Sweet,  Alice  Elizabeth  16 


Tabor,   Hudson    1 78 

Tarbell,  Betsy 173 

Taliaferro,  Cowper  S , 50 

Taylor,  Charles  T 15 

Mary  Ella  16 

Temple,  Lucy  C 81 

Thompson,  John  C 33 

Milton    47 

Nancy  R 27 

Richard  R .139 

Tisdale,  Mary  J.   (Spencer)    80 

Townsend,  Albert  B 75 

Eliza  Ann   . , 76 

Elizabeth  Davidson  79 

Gilson  Columbus    75 

Gilson  Ewing   78 

Jane  Pamela   75 

Joseph    78 

Martha  Jane 78,  82 

Martha  M.  C yj 

Martha   Smith    75 

Mary  M.  A.  D 76 

Presley    78 

Presley  Ewing    '/J 

Robert  Ewing    , 78 

Robert  Jefferson    75 


Page 

Townsend,  Dr.  Robert  Presley    75 

Roberta   Moore    75 

Susan  Ann    7^ 

Thomas  Jefferson    78 

General  Thomas  J 75 

General  Thomas  W 82 

Tighlman     78 

William    82 

Major  William 78 

Trevor,  Caroline  M.    (Breading)    12 

Turner,  James   I33 

Turpin,  Magda   I43 

u. 

Umphrey,  James 81 


Valle,  J -.    15 

Vance,  David     9° 

Elizabeth    90 

"       Sallie    86 

■'       Governor  Zebulon    90 

Vaughan,  Sue  Ann 180 

Venable,  Abraham    7^ 

"         Elizabeth  A 7^ 

Elizabeth  \\'oodson    JT- 

"         Martha  Davis 7^ 

Nathaniel 71 

Vickars,  Sarah 5 

Vinson,  Alice   (Baldridge)    I79 

"       Baldridge  Tyler 179 

"       Joseph  Carroll    I79 

Joseph  Kittredge 179,  184 

Josie  Vesta  (Ewing),  Daughter  of  Presley 
Kittredge  and  Mary  Ellen  (Williams) 
Ewing :     Her  Life,  ]\Iarriage  and  Children, 

Chapter  XXIV I79-  180 

"       Presley  Ewing   179,  184 

Volk,  Emily   .' 112 


VVailes,  Felicia  Anna    I43 

B.  L.  Covington   I43 


Page 

Walker,  Alice  Brevard    72 

"         Anthony   Smith    54 

Elizabeth  133 

"         Ephraim  Brevard    72 

"         Ewing  Anthony    72 

John  Read 72 

"         John  Read  Samuel   72 

Mary    133 

"         Thomas    133 

Wallace,  William 29 

Judge  William  C 63 

Waller,  Catherine    138 

"       William  S 138 

Wallis,  Sophia  Goodrich  Gillespie  15 

Warburton,   Bishop    185 

Warmack,  Jessie   64 

Warner,  John  171 

Warren,  James   M 64 

"         Joseph    165 

"         Winefred    51 

Waterhouse,  Robert 182 

Waterman,  Abigail   170 

Captain  William   171 

Watkins,  Irene   34 

Nancy  70 

Colonel  Thomas 70 

Watterson,  Henry   36 

Wendell,  Dr.  James 35 

Werlein,  Captain  Ewing   97 

Rev.    Halsey    96 

Philip  Prentiss    97 

"         Dr.  Presley  Ewing  (Lieutenant)    97 

Quincy 96 

Rev.  Shepard  Halsey   96 

"         Wilmer     96 

Wescott,  Waite  171 

West,  Colonel  Cato   139,   150 

Whatley    185 

Whipple,  Mehitable 170 

White,  Dr.  Andrew  J 27 

Whhehead,  Major  Daniel   182 

F.  M 29 

Whitman,  Hannah 171 

"  Sarah    171 


INDEX  XLIII. 

Page 

Whittington,  Bessie  Kittredge    126 

"  Gladis  lone   126 

Harry  Kirkland  126 

"  Joseph  Benson    126 

Joseph  Kittredge   126 

Leila   Marie    126 

"  Lucille  Marie   126 

Marion  Elizabeth   126 

Marion  Wilmer 126 

Mary  Adele    126 

"  Mary  Jessie   126 

Mary  Louise   126,   141 

St.  Clair  Joseph  126 

Whittlesey,    Martha    145 

Whitsett,  Frances  C 44,  56 

William    56 

Wilkerson,  James     133 

Priscilla    133 

Sarah  133 

Wilkinson,  Dorothy  Brevard   73 

Elizabeth  Allen 73 

"  Florence  Ewing   y^ 

"  Jane  Alice 73 

John  Cabell  73 

"  Margaret   73 

"  Thomas  Parks   73 

William  Tudor y^ 

William  and  Mary    4 

William  the  Conqueror 164 

Williams  Coat  of  Arms   162 

Williams,  Field  and  Mills  Trees :     Lineage  thereunder 
of    Mary    Ellen    Williams,    Wife    of    Presley    K. 

Ewing,  Chapter  XXVIII 164-178 

Williams  Tree,  The   164-169 

Williams,  Anne  A 129 

Charles  Albert   175 

Charles  Clark 164,  165,  166,  175,  176 

Daisy  Belle    176 

"  Dora  Louise I75 

Elizabeth    28 

"  Elizabeth   Stratton    164 

Eudora  Elizabeth  (Cross)    165,  175 


Page 

Williams,  Harriet    (Clark)    165 

Joseph  Crawley   165,   175 

Judith  Coleman   176 

Leachy  Peachy    71 

"  Llewellyn  Alexander 129 

Mary  Ellen   159,  161-163,   175 

Milbrey   H 31 

Minnie  Roberta    176 

"  Morgan   - •  •  164 

"  Morgan  Whitney 176 

"  Nannie   L 83 

General  Otto   165 

"  Oliver  Cromwell,  alias 164 

Rebecca  P 34 

Robert,   Pilgrim    164,   165 

Roger    164 

Rowena 36 

Ruby  Bethea   .176 

"  Sims  Cunningham   129 

"  Warren  Dudley 176 

William 164 

"  William  Franklin   .176 

Williamson,  William .-133 

Wills,  Filmer   i34 

Martha I34 

Wilmath,  Abigail 29 

Wilson,  Addie  A 52 

"         William  Sidney 15 

Winchester,   E.    B 16 

Windsor,  Anne  Marie 63 

Winlock,  Mary  J.  (Spencer) 80 

Winn,   Elizabeth 115 

Winston,  Eliza  Jane    82 

Withers,  Lida  .  .' 25 

Wood,  Anna .   67 

"       Dr.   Benjamin    82 

"       David 138 

Ethan  Allen 143 

Nancy  Collins    143 

"       Sarah  Jane    143 

Woodward,  Dr.  W.  W 53 

Wright,  James  H 21 

"        John   Montgomery    49 


Page 

Wrightson,  William  Victor   176 

Wynne,  Ara  Adair    50 

Florence  Magruder   50 

Gustave  Adair    50 

"       Jane   Sophronia    50 

"       John  Magruder    50 

Mae   Samuella    50 

"       Mamie  Staunton    50 

Y. 

Yantis,  William  1 68 

Yeats,   John    '  /O 


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